Noah Sheidlower
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Senior economy reporter @businessinsider | Trivia enthusiast | đź“·@UntappedNY | @nlgja @djnf | đź“©[email protected]
Joined October 2020
In September, I had the idea for @BusinessInsider to make a Google form asking older Americans to share their biggest life regrets. I expected to get 100-200 responses. I did not expect it to pull in 2,600 (and for another 1,000+ to email us).
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Over the past few months BI wrote over a dozen stories and made a video about thousands of older Americans' retirement regrets.
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RT @bomani_jones: #IYHH @NSheidlower - Boomers are struggling to land that one last job before they hit retirement. .
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If you get a moment, please take a few minutes to watch this video on what 6 older Americans want to say to their younger selves.
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Six older Americans, among the more than 3,800 who responded to Business Insider surveys, shared their biggest life regrets in a video.
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Cheers to the copy editors, design and art team, photographers, producers, and video editors. And to all our readers, I hope you learned a thing or two from these stories.
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Thank you to everyone I spoke with who were brave enough to share their stories with our readers. Thank you to @bartielouscott, @EmilyCanal, and @AndyKiersz for guiding us through this monster of a project. Special thanks to @JamieHeller for all the support during this process.
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We also analyzed how the US social safety net has contributed to many of these regrets — and what can be done to fix it.
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Social Security and Medicare help support older Americans. Many told BI that the checks weren't enough and that they wished they'd saved more.
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and enduring the loneliness that often comes with retiring.
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It's not just about a retirement account. Planning for how your social life might look can be just as important.
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raising children amid financial challenges,
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BI heard from parents who said that they had kids too young, that they regretted pausing their careers, or that divorces affected their finances.
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traversing the unknown after a medical diagnosis,
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Unexpected medical crises have derailed retirement plans for many older Americans, and many regret not preparing financially for the unexpected.
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grieving the loss of a loved one,
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Business Insider has heard from older widows and widowers about the financial toll of losing a spouse.
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From there, my co-reporter @alliemkelly and I took a closer look into themes such as saving for retirement,
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"I didn't think about the retirement aspect because it was so far down the road, but here I am now wishing that I had," one baby boomer said.
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We published the first article in October when we surpassed 1,000 form responses.
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Over 1,000 older Americans shared their biggest regrets with BI, including not saving enough for retirement or taking Social Security too early.
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My first video! I helped lead reporting on a video in which we asked older Americans to write letters to their younger selves. Hear what they had to say @BusinessInsider.
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Six older Americans, among the more than 3,800 who responded to Business Insider surveys, shared their biggest life regrets in a video.
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New @BusinessInsider: Older Americans are falling through the cracks of the programs designed to save them.
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Social Security and Medicare help support older Americans. Many told BI that the checks weren't enough and that they wished they'd saved more.
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New @BusinessInsider: Meet the oversavers: Older Americans who have plenty for retirement but wish they'd worked less and vacationed more.
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One retiree has "enough money to live until 95 and go on vacations." But then he got cancer. "I may not even enjoy the money I worked hard to save."
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