Special Reports

This report considers how one aspect of paid family and medical leave program design – allowing employers to opt out and offer comparable private plans – affects the generosity of benefits, who bears the cost, and employer practices.

This report explores options for improving access to workplace retirement savings plans.

Given the relative affordability of current pension costs, the report suggests two changes to NHRS that would likely increase costs today but would reduce the risk that poor investment returns and/or a backloaded funding policy could significantly increase costs or reduce the funded ratio down the road.

Any solution to the multiemployer problem must be comprehensive, not only helping those in serious trouble today but also staving off future problems.

Student debt in the United States now approaches $1 trillion – exceeding Americans’ credit-card balances for the first time – and 59 percent of U.S. undergraduates are in debt, according to FinAid.org.

In the fall of 2010, the CRR sponsored a series of qualitative interviews with consumers on a range of retirement issues.

Financial Literacy on the Web is an in-depth report that imposes order on the Internet’s chaos by providing a framework to assess personal finance websites.