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Election Campaigns and Retirement Security: An Exchange of Viewpoints
As the run-up to the 2020 Presidential Election grinds to a conclusion, issues related to what the platforms mean to retirement security continue to come to the surface. With 40% of American households potentially poised to run out of money in their retirement years, and with about half of the population reported to have no emergency savings (statistics according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute), the Biden and Trump plans for Social Security and other financial issues take center stage in a conversation between Andrew Biggs, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and former Principal Deputy Commissioner with SSA, and Alicia Munnell, the director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. To access this Yahoo! video recording of this discussion, click here…