pensions

• 
• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/29/2023
  

  Do French Pension Protests Reveal a Lazy Nation?

  by Robert Zaretsky

  French workers are among the most productive in Europe, but today's protests over a potential increase in the retirement age show a long tradition of defending the value of leisure as the chance to pursue one's own ends outside of paid labor. 

• 
• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/12/2023
  

  The Black Widows' Struggle for Civil War Pensions

  by Hilary Green

  Black women's struggles to claim pensions earned by their late husbands' service in the Union Army reflected the incomplete realization of freedom after emancipation and the intrusive controls the pension system and growing administrative state placed on Black families. 

• 
• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/1/2021
  

  Black Women and Civil War Pensions

  by Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr.

  Widows and surviving children of Black veterans of the Civil War used their status as pensioners to claim belonging in the nation, but authorities frequently allowed notions of respectability rooted in white supremacy to undermine them. 

• 
• SOURCE: NY Post
  1-20-18
  

  Pension report shows that a historian continues to be the highest paid pensioner in New York State education system

  Edgar McManus, 93, a retired Queens College history professor, received $561,286 last year.