[theunixbeard]

“The forum assumed retirees would need enough income to cover 70% of their pre-retirement pay, and didn’t include Social Security or other government welfare payments in the total.”

The above caveat is pretty huge...

[symplee]

Exactly. If that number were arbitrarily changed to 60% and did include Social Security, well, there goes the news article.

[DennisP]

So they're excluding what the government is doing, to argue that the government needs to do something.