In the News • September 23, 2013
A Bloomberg article cites data from the National Institute on Retirement Security on the gravity of the retirement savings crisis. The article states, “About 7.2 million Americans who were 65 and older were employed last year, a 67 percent increase from a decade ago, according to government data. Yet 59 percent of households headed by […]
Press Release • August 1, 2013
While the U.S. faces a retirement crisis, other countries have programs that provide a better level of economic security in retirement. RETIREMENT PROGRAMS IN AUSTRALIA, CANADA, AND THE NETHERLANDS OUTSHINE U.S., NEW RESEARCH FINDS Three Nations Offer Lessons for Providing High Quality Retirement Plans with Income Adequacy, Financial Sustainability, and Risk Sharing WASHINGTON, D.C., AUGUST […]
In the News • July 1, 2013
NIRS Executive Director Diane Oakley weighs in on the retirement savings shortfall facing Americans in this USA Today article, citing NIRS’ study The Retirement Savings Gap: Is It Worse Than We Think? Read the article here.
In the News • June 26, 2013
CBS MoneyWatch reports on the NIRS findings from “The Retirement Savings Crisis: Is It Worse Than We Think?” which analyzed the state of Americans’ retirement savings and compared them to benchmarks gauging progress toward maintaining retirement living standards. Read the article here.
In the News • June 24, 2013
Persistent unemployment and stagnant wages have left many workers treading water, struggling so hard to both stay afloat and save for retirement. The New York Times’ Economix blog covers the new NIRS research on the retirement savings gap. Read the article here.
In the News • June 23, 2013
“If you have saved enough to afford a comfortable retirement, congratulations. You’re in a tiny minority,” reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in an article about new NIRS retirement savings gap research. Read the article here.
In the News • June 21, 2013
“The traditional ways of getting people to save haven’t worked,” says Forbes in an article covering the savings crisis facing American families and the release of the NIRS report The Retirement Savings Crisis: Is It Worse Than We Think?. Read the article here.
In the News • June 21, 2013
The official AARP Blog writes about new NIRS report on the retirement savings gap, pulling in supporting evidence from AARP experts to show the staggering gap in what Americans need to have saved for retirement and what they have in reality. Read the blog post here.
In the News • June 20, 2013
The New America Foundation covered the webinar releasing our retirement savings gap research, stating “The NIRS report does a great job of laying out the essential flaws of our current retirement system and identifying strategies to improve matters.” Read the full blog post here.