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Why Tax Day Is the Best Day to Save Money

April 15, 2013, Michal Grinstein-Weiss
We really need to think hard about whether the dollars we are spending are effective at achieving the goals. Our existing [retirement] programs are falling short.
February 25, 2013, Karen Dynan, Bloomberg
Tax Expenditures and the Deficit: Time to Rethink Retirement Saving Policy?

February 13, 2013
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Make Changes to Social Security Now to Prevent Future Debt

January 3, 2013, Alice M. Rivlin
A Fiscal Cliff Compromise Through Alternative CPI?

December 20, 2012, Henry J. Aaron
Can Working Longer Solve Our Budget Problems?

December 7, 2012
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Effects of an Individual Development Account Program on Retirement Saving: Follow-Up Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

December 2012, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Michael Sherraden, William G. Gale, William M. Rohe, Mark Schreiner and Clinton Key
Changing Sources of Income Among the Aged Population

November 1, 2012, Barry P. Bosworth and Kathleen Burke
New Ways to Promote Retirement Saving

October 2012, William G. Gale, David C. John and Spencer Smith
Higher Personal Saving: Who Needs It?

October 1, 2012, Karen Dynan
Pension Legacy Costs and Local Government Finances

October 2012, Richard F. Dye and Tracy Gordon
People have lost their appetite for risk. They’ve been burned by the stock market. They’ve suffered through capital losses on their homes. And so they’re hunkering down in what they view as the safest place to store money.
October 1, 2012, Karen Dynan, Washington Post
The Underfunding of Corporate Pension Plans

September 4, 2012, Robert C. Pozen
A Realistic Discount Rate for Pensions

August 20, 2012, Robert C. Pozen and Theresa Hamacher
I think the era of broad prosperity for American seniors will end with the first wave of Baby Boomers, now entering their 60s. Times are tougher for their later Boomer brothers and sisters who entered the labor and housing markets in the late 1970s during tougher economic times.
August 8, 2012, William H. Frey, USA Today
Pension ‘Savings’ in Transportation Bill May Be Costly

August 2, 2012, Robert C. Pozen
Improving All Types of Saving With the UK's Expanded Retirement Savings Platform

August 2012, David C. John
The State of Local Government Pensions: A Preliminary Inquiry

July 2012, Tracy Gordon, Heather M. Rose and Ilana Fischer
Home prices haven't gone anywhere in many parts of the country. For households for whom the home was the main way in which they had saved, those households have not seen much of a recovery, and it's unclear how much of a recovery they are going to see.
July 23, 2012, Karen Dynan, U.S. News & World Report
Most of the country is increasing its over-age-45 population simply because people are aging in place. There is some movement among the retired population, but it's not that huge and people who move typically move locally. Florida is the outlier. In the rest of these places the migration is occurring among people under age 45.
July 5, 2012, William H. Frey, Jobs and Hire
One thing that’s pretty clear: Individual income tax expenditures hit a pretty broad swath of people in the middle of the income distribution.
April 17, 2012, Adam Looney, Lawmakers consider changing tax breaks on retirement savings
Public-Pension Pitfalls: What Municipal Budget Troubles Mean For Bond Investors

April 4, 2012, Theresa Hamacher and Robert C. Pozen
Are Pensions Busting Local Government Budgets?

March 13, 2012, Tracy Gordon
American Savings and Growth

February 28, 2012, Barry P. Bosworth
Time to Tighten Rules on U.S. Pensions

February 19, 2012, Theresa Hamacher and Robert C. Pozen