The direct energy source that drives ATP synthesis during respiratory oxidative phosphorylation in eukaryotic cells is. A) oxidation of glucose to COâ and water. B) the thermodynamically favorable flow of electrons from NADH to the mitochondrial electron transport carriers.
The median amount in retirement accounts for Americans within 10 years of retirement is less than $120,000, according to Webb, an amount that would provide a monthly income of only $400 a month. The average Social Security retirement benefit at the start of 2014 was only $1,249 a month, or less than $15,000 a year.
Gallup conducted several polls in the early 1990s and found that the average retirement age was 57 in both 1991 and 1993. From 2002 through 2012, the average hovered around 60. Over the past two years, the average age at which Americans report retiring has increased to 62.