Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Financial page: PBS Frontline: Can You Afford to Retire

Barry over at Financial Page points to an interesting article on the state of retirement planning in the US.

Financial page: PBS Frontline: Can You Afford to Retire

A quick look-in:

" Half of America's private sector workforce are not covered by any retirement savings plan; their retirement will be anchored only by Social Security and whatever they have managed to save on their own.

The other 50 percent have one of the two main employer-sponsored retirement savings strategies: a traditional lifetime pension or a 401(k)-style investment plan. Today, twice as many workers have 401(k)s than have lifetime pensions, a complete reversal from 25 years ago, according to David Wray of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America."



Good coverage!

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