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Two-thirds of U.S. senators and nearly half of House lawmakers are eligible for full retirement benefits. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Why don’t more politicians retire? A medical anthropologist explains how the US could benefit from a mandatory retirement age

Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Many Americans seem to prefer to keep working well past retirement age, but it’s not clear whether the choice is motivated by the need to keep earning money or the desire to continue being productive.

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