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.
In the News • June 20, 2013
U.S. News reports on the staggering retirement savings gap facing Americans and covers newly released NIRS research that examines the magnitude of the retirement savings shortfall. For all working-age families, typical households have only a few thousand dollars saved for retirement. Read the full article here.
In the News • June 20, 2013
Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee releases a statement about the NIRS report The Retirement Savings Crisis: Is It Worse Than We Think? emphasizing the concerns Americans have about retiring with adequate income and his USA Retirement Fund proposal. Read the statement from Senator Harkin here.
In the News • June 20, 2013
Plansponsor covers the NIRS webinar releasing our report “The Retirement Savings Gap: Is It Worse Than We Think” presenting research on working households not holding enough assets to retire. Read the article here.
In the News • June 19, 2013
The Twin Cities’ Pioneer Press highlights the retirement savings gap facing working Americans households and NIRS’ release of the The Retirement Savings Crisis: Is It Worse Than We Think? Read the article here.
In the News • April 18, 2013
NIRS executive director Diane Oakley writes that more than 70 percent of Americans agree that public employees who protect and shape our future should receive a pension. So it is not a surprise that, after the financial crisis, Pennsylvania and nearly every state enacted sustainability changes. Read the full article opinion piece here.