Americans Prepare for Retirement Differently Than Their Parents' Generation

They're doing everything right for retirement. Their parents didn't.

Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI For better or worse, America treats retirement like a personal problem. Yes, there's Social Security, but it's only designed to make up about 40% of your retirement income. As for the rest, the answer is to work hard, save up, and pray your calculations are right. Even if you manage to get it all right, what happens when your parents don't do the same? Baby boomers are in their post-work era — an estimated 10,000 of them retire every day. As a whole, they're a ...