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    The Agony and Ecstasy of Retirement Living in a Pod

    by Neale Godfrey, Financial Literacy Expert, President & CEO, Children's Financial Network Inc. Sep 27, 2018 3 minutes

    I have been writing about a new way of living in retirement: Pods. Why? Because according to Northwestern Mutual' s 2018 Planning & Progress Study, 21% of Americans have nothing saved at all for their golden years, and a third of Americans have less than $5,000.

    I'm not going to lecture you about the fact that the way you may have planned to live in retirement will not pan out. What I'm doing is offering you a future that could be spent with friends and family while sharing expenses, a future of ecstasy.

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    What's a Pod? It's a shared-living

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