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In June 2022, U.S. inflation peaked at 8.9 percent – a dramatically high level after nearly three decades of relatively stable prices. Because inflation has been so low for so long, the risks it poses have been generally overlooked and recent history does not offer much practical insight on its impact…
A common refrain among retirement researchers is that longer careers are the best way to ensure an adequate retirement. This refrain is often directed at the workers themselves – “you need to work longer!” And that message seems to have been getting through. Since the 1990s, the labor force participation rates of older individuals hav…
The headlines from the 2023 Medicare Trustees Report were that the Hospital Insurance (HI) program faces a long-term deficit and will deplete its trust fund reserves in 2031 and that the rest of the Medicare program will require increasing amounts of general revenues. While true, the outlook for program costs is considerably more favorable than…
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Retirees took more money out of their savings to keep up with rising prices, raising the risk of depleting their nest eggs.
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This initiative identifies the major risks that people face as they approach retirement, seeks to understand their perceptions of those risks, measures the potential harm from the risks, and evaluates ways to mitigate them. These risks include: longevity, inflation, health, market, family, and policy. The CRR gratefully acknowledges Jackson National Life Insurance Company for supporting…
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The main reason that U.S. workers end up with inadequate retirement savings is that, at any given time, only about half of private sector workers are covered by an employer-sponsored retirement plan (see Figure 1)…
Our winter newsletter features new research on the insurance value of Social Security and new data on 401k/IRA holdings. It also announces our 2024 research grant opportunities…