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One look at the chart above says all you need to know about the costs of retirement for public workers in San Jose, California’s third-largest city: They are soaring.

Suppose our country had another Academy Awards gala for citizen heroes – those tiny numbers of Americans who are working successfully fulltime in nonprofit groups to advance access to justice, general operations of our faltering democratic society, and the health, safety, and economic well-being of all citizens.

Like boomers (and all workers for that matter) don’t have enough to worry about when it comes to saving enough for retirement. Now actions by AOL’s Tim Armstrong may be setting a dangerous example for other companies to follow suit.

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) unveiled long-awaited legislation that proposes to provide all workers with access to a retirement plan through automatic payroll deductions, particularly workers who currently don’t have access to employer-provided retirement plans.