André Braugher Dies: Star Of ‘Homicide: Life On The Street’, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ & Other Series And Films Was 61
André Braugher has died. The two-time Emmy-winning star of series including Homicide: Life on the Street, Men of a Certain Age and Brooklyn Nine-Nine was 61. Braugher, whose first film role came alongside Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington in the Ed Zwick-directed Glory, died Monday after a...
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As we all know, Social Security provides a retirement stipend for those who have worked a bit in the U.S., and those benefits are doled out on a schedule that is based on AGE. You can start collecting benefits at age 62 - the lowest level of benefits - and your benefits max out if you continue working to age 70.
It has long been known and accepted that women live longer than men, and therefore got more out of Social Security than men do, based on dollars per person over the life of collecting benefits.
Non-Hispanic "whites" live almost six years longer in the U.S. than do non-Hispanic Blacks. (Hispanics live longer than either). And if you count that from a "normal" retirement age of 65 or 66, "whites" are collecting more than twice as much as Blacks, in lifetime payouts from SS. Further, we know that poor people tend to work longer than middle-class or upper-class people, so one suspects that Blacks are more likely to be working up to and even past the age of 70. In that case, the racial difference might be much higher, with those Blacks only drawing SS for a year or two, or maybe not at all, as in the case of the linked personage.
Is this a problem?