Tag: retirement saving

Left to their own devices, Americans who lack a retirement savings plan at work do not usually take the initiative to set up an IRA and save on their own. Oregon lawmakers decided to do something about that, and a new study finds that their approach of requiring employers without a plan to automatically enro…

Expanding Auto-IRAs and the Saver’s Credit is the real way to increase saving. I just reviewed a manuscript where once again the authors proposed changing the tax incentive for retirement saving from a deduction to a credit. I used to push this idea myself, but now think it’s a diversion that could increase the revenu…