Tag: retirement plan participation

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…

Business team brainstorming with charts and graphs

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…