Tag: Senator Warren

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When COVID-19 throws people out of work, their chances of retiring comfortably can deteriorate rapidly. What better time to find a new way to help? A perennial proposal just reintroduced in Congress would do some good: establish an online database of employer retirement plans so workers and retirees can locate old pensions and 401(k) accounts…

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I love any proposal that puts my preferences clearly in the center.  And Senator Warren did just that with her plans for Social Security.  Just to remind you about Social Security’s finances, the program’s actuaries project a deficit over the next 75 years of 2.78 percent of taxable payrolls.  As shown in Figure 1, this…