France is growing older. However, Europe's record-breaking life expectancy has a downside: in order to pay for its increasingly healthy legion of retirees, the French right says there's no other option but to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. The left retorts that if corporations paid their fair share in taxes, that would more than sustain the country's cherished pay-as-you go pension system. Ahead of what unions are billing as their biggest strike day yet against the government's pension reform, what exactly does the future hold for workers?
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