Nevin's Data "Points"

You have to hand it to the  Washington Post . At a time when millions of working Americans are finding a financial lifeline in their retirement savings, they managed to find in the questionable life choices of a half dozen individuals a condemnation of the nation’s private retirement system. The piece, laboriously titled “ Millions of baby boomers are getting caught in the country’s broken retirement system ” is light (and selective) on data (they managed to get hold of a 2016 report by the Economic Policy Institute subtitled “How 401(k)s have failed most American workers,” some datapoints from the National Institute on Retirement Security (for those who have forgotten some of the issues with their database, see Data ‘Minding’ ” and a couple of quotes from none other than Teresa Ghilarducci). Indeed, the article isn’t really about factual data; rather it’s mostly reliant on the anecdotes of six individuals the author has somehow stumbled upon. Weirdl...