Inflation pushes up wages and prices, but the exact rate is impossible to predict.
For the majority of nurses, now in their 40s, retirement may still seem like a distant goal, but it isn't. We baby boomers grew up with atomic bomb drills, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. Well, it has. Like it or not, we are now adults, and we have to deal with the realities of our retirement years. Women face even greater challenges.