Tag: two-income couples
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Spouses don’t realize when they need to save for two. Every time we look at households’ preparedness for retirement, we find that two-earner couples are in the worst shape. We generally attribute their status to the fact that one-earner couples receive a Social Security spouse’s benefit equal to 50 percent of the breadwinner’s while most…