Women could retire at 50 or 55, men at 60 – now both ages will move up.
Over the course of 15 years, the retirement age for men will go from 60 to 63. For women, the retirement age will go up from either 50 or 55, depending on their job, to 55 or 58.
That news story (with an emphasis on creative story telling) goes on with this actual misinformation:
The U.S. birthrate has been falling for years as young Americans grapple with the rising cost of housing, healthcare, child care and more. It’s reasons like these, along with often-massive student debt, that are discouraging couples of marriage age from getting hitched and starting families in the first place.
The fertility rate collapse began 50 years ago. The collapse NOTHING with current economic issues or student debt. Many countries have provided heavily subsidized childcare, direct payment for having kids, free college education (in Denmark they pay students to earn college degrees), etc, and there has been no lasting impact on the birth rates.
