PPI's Progress Report: A French lesson for American pols

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A French lesson for American pols
By Will Marshall, President and Founder of PPI; Ben Ritz
Director of PPI's Center for Funding America's Future
For New York Daily News

France has one of the most generous — and fiercely guarded — welfare states in the Western world. No one knows that better than President Emmanuel Macron, who recently won a six-year battle to raise France’s retirement age from 62 to 64.

That may not sound draconian to Americans since the normal retirement age for Social Security is 67. But in France, Macron’s move has ignited a furious wave of violent protests and paralyzing strikes that have shut down railways and airports and left mountains of uncollected garbage festering in the streets of Paris.

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