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  • Nikki Haley, a Republican presidential candidate, said she wants to up the full retirement age.
  • She proposed increasing the full retirement age for "people like my kids in their twenties."
  • The idea is wildly unpopular, according to polling.

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley said she thinks the US' retirement age is "way too low" and needs to be increased. 

In an interview with Bloomberg Markets on Thursday a day after she attended the first GOP presidential debate in Milwaukee, Haley said the country should increase the retirement age in an attempt to address possible Social Security and Medicare insolvency.