Tag: NRRI

Serious senior couple looking at finances

The brief’s key findings are: Between 2013 and 2016, the National Retirement Risk Index improved modestly, dropping from 52 percent to 50 percent of working-age households. The improvement was driven mainly by rising home prices, with stock market gains also contributing. At the same time, Social Security’s rising “Full Retirement Age” and declining interest rates…

Parents helping their son with his homework at home in living room

Kids moderately increase the risk of falling short for households in their 50s. We just released a study that looks at the relationship between children and retirement security.  Kids are expensive.  Parents divert considerable resources to their children – both time out of the labor force when the kids are young and direct expenditures on…