{"id":983,"date":"2026-08-31T11:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartmoneymaps.com\/?p=983"},"modified":"2026-08-31T11:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:30:12","slug":"will-young-californians-ever-be-able-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartmoneymaps.com\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"Will Young Californians Ever Be Able to Retire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/200420888?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=229388\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>October 01, 2014 &#8211; According to surveys, some 70 percent of Californians under the age of 40 expect they\u2019ll never retire &#8211; and that makes sense, since few are saving money for retirement. Why is it so hard to convince young Californians to do essential long-term planning? 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City of Los Angeles financial empowerment initiative director Olivia Calderon, SagePoint financial advisor Alexander Cruz, personal finance columnist Liz Weston, and AARP director of financial security and consumer affairs Gerri Madrid-Davis visit Z\u00f3calo to ask how young Californians might be saved from elderly poverty &#8211; and themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 01, 2014 &#8211; According to surveys, some 70 percent of Californians under the age of 40 expect they\u2019ll never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/smartmoneymaps.com\/?p=983\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Will Young Californians Ever Be Able to Retire? 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