Financing Retirement

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The Center first released its National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI) in 2006.  The goal was to summarize in a single number the extent to which today’s workers would be prepared for retirement.  The Index uses the Federal Reserve’s triennial Survey of Consumer Finances to compare projected replacement rates – retirement income as a percentage of…

student loan relief

The pause in federal student loan payments during COVID has been a golden opportunity to chop down the debt. In March 2020, Congress stopped charging interest on the loans when it suspended the monthly payments. The moratorium is slated to continue through June. The zero-interest loan means inflation actually eroded the value of the debt,…

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