There’s a $6.6 trillion deficit in Americans’ retirement incomes. That figure — worth repeating — 6-point-6 TRILLION DOLLARS represents the gap between what American households actually have in pensions and retirement savings and what they should have to be able to retire comfortably. The astounding number comes from a recent survey prepared for Retirement USA — an initiative of the Pension Rights Center, whose Policy Director, Karen Friedman, sat down with Prime Time Radio host Mike Cuthbert to discuss the great American Retirement Deficit.
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