Now, with her pension, she'll have around $3,700 a month coming in.
Even so, she said it was still the most uplifting and rewarding work she's ever done.
She'd also like the country to rethink conversations around Social Security and retirement benefits more broadly.
At the same time, politicians have taken aim at Social Security, suggesting potentially pushing up the retirement age and not moving to fund its coffers.
"We have to get out of this frame of mind that suggests that Social Security that people have paid into for decades is somehow an entitlement.
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