Automatic: Changing the Way America Saves

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The past 25 years have brought a dramatic shift in Americas pension system away from defined benefit plans and toward individual account savings arrangements such as 401(k) plans and IRAs. As a result, workers have been forced to assume increased responsibility to prepare for their own retirement and greater risk from managing their retirement accounts. In this changing retirement landscape, the authors call for new tools and strategies to help retirees manage these risks and better prepare for their retirement. Automatic argues for a fresh approach to increase saving, simplify retirement planning, and help manage the risks associated with todays individual account environment.

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"William G. Gale holds the Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy at the Brookings Institution and is also director of The Retirement Security Project. J. Mark Iwry is senior adviser to the secretary and deputy assistant treasury secretary for retirement and health policy at the United States Department of the Treasury. David C. John is a principal of the Retirement Security Project and a senior research fellow at the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation. Lina Walker is a strategic policy adviser with AARP's Public Policy Institute."