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Solving America’s Retirement Savings Challenge: Workplace Savings 3.0

July 7, 2009

If action is not taken to boost retirement savings — and substantially — a generation from now, millions of people could be short on funds to pay for food, medicine, and housing. Fortunately, the framework for a solution already exists in the form of America’s workplace savings plans.

This paper begins with a brief look at the macro-drivers of America’s retirement challenge, and then turns to how our workplace savings system has evolved over time and how we can start acting — right now — to take it to a whole new level of resilience and reliability.

Solving America’s Retirement Savings Challenge: Workplace 3.0

Category: Defined Contribution, Retirement Reform, Workplace Savings 3.0

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