The Future Poor

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What do we do if everything we've worked for suddenly goes up in flames? We hope that someone will help us to rebuild our lives. In two sentences, that's the message of this book by personal finance expert Jonathan Grimm who just experienced that kind of life-threatening trauma when he and his family lost their California home and their entire neighborhood without warning in a raging wildfire. But there's hope even after such a disaster, if we remember and reclaim some of our core community values. We all can use such practical and inspiring wisdom now because the main crisis Jonathan Grimm warns about in these chapters is larger than the devastation of any fire or other natural disaster. The larger crisis that is shared by millions of still-young American adults is a looming retirement crisis. Due to deep flaws in our retirement system, individuals and families who assume they'll sail smoothly into those retirement years