Tag: employer-sponsored retirement plan

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Abstract About half of private sector workers in the United States do not participate in an employer-sponsored retirement plan at their current job.  To fill the gap, a number of state governments around the country have recently launched initiatives to automatically enroll their uncovered workers in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs).  This paper reports on t…

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The brief’s key findings are: Half of private sector workers are not covered by an employer-sponsored retirement plan. The federal government has made no progress on closing this coverage gap, so the states are stepping into the breach: Four states have adopted a mandatory Auto-IRA program. Two other states are setting up voluntary marketplaces. Of…