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Welcome to the latest edition of This Week in Pensions! As we do most weeks, we have gathered the top stories about pensions and retirement security from the previous week. This is the news you need to know in the…
Donald Trump has been president for a few weeks now. During the campaign, we speculated on what his presidency might mean for your retirement. Now that he is actually in office, we are beginning to see the signs of his…
President Donald Trump has nominated Andrew Puzder to be Secretary of Labor. Puzder is the CEO of CKE Restaurants, which is the parent company of Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. Puzder’s confirmation hearing in the Senate has been delayed four times…
It’s still early in 2017 and the fight to protect pensions is just beginning. John Arnold is on the attack against pensions in Nebraska, South Carolina, and Texas. Anti-pension legislators in Michigan are threatening to reintroduce legislation that would gut…
As we’ve written about on this blog, the prevalence of defined benefit pensions has declined in the private sector and this has hurt working families. In the public sector, though, defined benefit pensions remain quite common. According to a recent…
In August, we wrote about the decline of traditional pensions in the private sector. One of the major reasons for private companies abandoning pensions was a series of laws beginning in the 1980s and culminating in the Pension Protection Act…
Welcome to the latest edition of This Week in Pensions! As we do each week, we have gathered the best stories from the past week about pensions and retirement security. This is the news you need to know in the…
The United States faces a retirement savings crisis. Just over half of all workers don’t have access to a retirement savings plan through their employer. Most working families, even near-retirement age households, have very little saved for retirement. The United…
Now that Donald Trump is settling in as the president-elect, he is beginning to outline the priorities for his administration. As with many issues regarding Trump, it is hard to say for sure where he stands on Social Security, public…
It’s increasingly obvious that there is a retirement savings crisis in the United States. At any given time, half of working Americans don’t have access to a retirement savings plan through their employer. Even workers who do have an employer-sponsored…
Welcome to the latest edition of This Week in Pensions! As we do most weeks, we have gathered the best stories about pensions and retirement security. This is the news you need to know in the fight for a secure…
Welcome to the latest edition of This Week in Pensions! As we do each week, we have gathered the top stories about pensions and retirement security. This is the news you need to know in the fight for a secure…