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Disabled Americans Facing Ruinous Costs of Long-Term Care Got No New Answers from a Blue-Ribbon Federal Commission Last Week. Where Do We Go from Here?

September 25, 2013, Barbara J. Gage, Judith Tobin and Darshak Sanghavi

Retirement Savings in Australia, Asia and Beyond: What are the Lessons for the United States?

September 17, 2013

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Closing the Deficit

How Much Can Later Retirement Help?

2013, Henry J. Aaron and Gary Burtless, eds.

A Review of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Pension Insurance Modeling System

September 11, 2013, Jeffrey R. Brown, Douglas J. Elliott, Tracy Gordon and Ross A. Hammond

Reforming the Chinese Pension System

July 31, 2013, Robert C. Pozen

The Need for Good Research on Pension Reform

July 10, 2013, Matthew M. Chingos

Are Public Pensions Keeping Up with the Times?

June 12, 2013, Richard W. Johnson, Matthew M. Chingos and Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst

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The Impact of Population Aging and Delayed Retirement on Workforce Productivity

May 2013, Gary Burtless

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

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

Pension Legacy Costs and Local Government Finances

October 2012, Richard F. Dye and Tracy Gordon

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