Archive: Geoffrey T. Sanzenbacher

Pink piggy banks overhead view

For decades, we and other commentators have asserted that, at any given time, roughly 50 percent of private sector workers participate in an employer-sponsored retirement plan.  It used to be easy to check out the “50 percent” number because the federal government’s Current Population Survey (CPS) produced data on coverage and participation for public and…

Miniature workers on different height coin stacks

Getting people to work probably isn’t the point. As a rule, I don’t trust any piece of major legislation whose title contains literally no information on its contents. So, when I saw that Republicans in the House of Representatives had passed something called the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” I was suspicious. I mean, giv…