CRR Director Alicia Munnell writes a weekly blog post for MarketWatch.
Recent Posts
To What Extent will Working from Home Continue? (5/3/21)
Has COVID-19 Pushed More People Into Retirement? (4/20/21)
Can Investors Solve the Climate Change Problem? (4/13/21)
COVID $1.9 Trillion Package Temporarily Expands Earned-Income Tax Credit (3/30/21)
Critics Leap on Aid to Multiemployer Pension Plans (3/23/21)
What is the Value of Annuities? (3/17/21)
Do Men and Women Save Differently for Retirement? (3/8/21)
Has COVID-19 Really Affected Life Expectancy? (3/1/21)
Few 401(k) Participants Changed Portfolio Allocation When Market Tanked (2/23/21)
Retirement Income Security for Everyone (RISE) Raises Many Questions (2/17/21)
Low Interest Rates Make It Harder to Save for Retirement (2/8/21)
What’s Happening to State and Local Government Finances? (2/1/21)
Retirement Security in 2019 and 2020: We Need to Fix Our Retirement System (1/25/21)
How to Get Steady Income for Life (1/21/21)
COVID Pressured Some Employers to Suspend their 401(k) Match (1/12/21)
Eliminating Social Security’s WEP and GPO Provisions Is Not the Way to Help Retirees (1/5/21)
COVID Is Not a Retirement Story (12/21/20)
Auto-IRA Programs Are Closing the Coverage Gap (12/18/20)
Social Security Actuaries Update Projections for COVID-19 (12/8/20)
How Has COVID-19 Affected Older Workers (11/30/20)
Social Security Lets You Change Your Mind (11/16/20)
401(k) and IRA Balances Are Up Modestly, a Key Survey Shows (11/10/20)
Here’s an Easier Way to Think About ESG Investing (11/2/20)
DOL Punts on SECURE Act Lifetime Income Illustrations (10/27/20)
Social Insurance Is the Best Way to Save — Now More Than Ever (10/13/20)
How Rich Is the ‘Middle Class’? (10/6/20)
Are We Undercounting or Overcounting COVID-19 Deaths? (9/30/20)
Payroll Tax Deferral Messes with Social Security — One of the Few Good Things in This Crazy World (9/21/20)
Biden’s 401(k) Plan: Changing Tax Incentive for Retirement Is a Great Idea (9/14/20)
A Drop in Social Security’s Average Wage Index Could Hurt Four Million People (9/8/20)
Department of Labor Rules on Both Sides of the Social Investing Issue (8/31/20)
Should We Rethink How We Tax Social Security Benefits? (8/24/20)
Don’t Trust the TRUST Act (8/17/20)
Paying Off Unfunded Pensions Liabilities Will Be a Low Priority After COVID-19 (8/10/20)
Department of Labor Comes Down Hard on Social Investing (8/4/20)
Don’t Cut the Payroll Tax — Let’s Help Those without a Job (7/28/20)
Tapping Social Security for Anything — Including COVID-19 Payments — Is Wrongheaded (7/21/20)
What Will COVID-19 Mean for Social Security Claiming? (7/16/20)
Will COVID-19 Force Older Workers to Retire? (7/8/20)
New Labor Department Rule Changes Default Retirement Plan Disclosure from Paper to Electronic (6/29/20)
Social Security’s Average Wage Index Likely to Decline in 2020 (6/23/20)
COVID-19 Is Not as Big a Threat to Typical Older Workers as You Might Think (6/16/20)
Older Workers Are as Well Situated as Younger Workers to Work Remotely (6/9/20)
Pre-COVID-19 Survey Shows Employers Positive on Older Workers (6/1/20)
Can People Really Work from Home? (5/27/20)
Social Security and COVID-19: 3 Ways the Shutdown Could Impact the Program (5/18/20)
Job Losses Have Hit Older Workers Harder than Prime-age Workers (5/11/20)
Social Security Report Shows Uptick in 75-Year Deficit, No Change in Trust Fund Depletion Date (5/6/20)
How Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Affect Social Security’s Finances? (4/30/20)
Employers Start to Suspend Their 401(k) Match (4/21/20)
Why Suspending the RMD Rules for 2020 Is a Good Move (4/14/20)
Congress Missed a Big Opportunity in the CARES Legislation (4/6/20)
Why Do So Many People Need Financial Help? (3/30/20)
Suspending the Social Security Payroll Tax Is a Terrible Idea (3/24/20)
Scattering of Death Rates Has Huge Implications for Social Security (3/20/20)
Yes, Retirement Benefits for Police and Fire are Expensive (3/10/20)
There are No Magic Fixes for Social Security (3/2/20)
Health Savings Accounts are Crazy Bad Tax Policy (2/26/20)
Do Millennials Really Deserve a ‘Gold Star’ for Retirement Saving? (2/18/20)
Life Expectancy is Up Slightly — and That’s Good News (2/11/10)
No Need to Talk About the Saver’s Credit in a Presidential Campaign (2/4/20)
Are Retiree Housing Patterns Stable Enough to Borrow Against Home Equity? (1/28/20)
How Can We Fix Social Security’s Coming Cash Shortfall? (1/22/20)
Secure Act is Likely to Have a Positive — but Small — Impact (1/15/20)
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