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22 Matching News Items

1.  What is Financial Stress Testing and Why Does It Matter?
National Public Pension Coalition Link to more items from this source
Feb. 25, 2019
"[Pew Research Center is] known for traveling to states and pushing for mandatory stress testing.... [M]ost public pension plans already conduct financial stress tests.... Pew's method of stress testing focuses on downside events only: times when the pension plan's investment returns fall significantly below expectations. This effectively rigs the outcome because the plan is going to look bad if you are only considering worst case scenarios."
2.  Survey on Working After Retirement: The Gap Between Expectations and Reality (PDF)
Pew Research Center Link to more items from this source
Sept. 27, 2006
9 pages. Excerpt: The latest Pew findings suggest that retirement is a phase of life about which public attitudes, expectations and experiences are in a period of transition. And given the demographic changes afoot ... as well as the changes underway in the basic financial framework of retirement (fewer people now than in the past work for employers who provide defined benefit pension plans) this evolution in attitudes is likely to continue for years to come.
3.  Two-Thirds of Americans Now Favor Single Payer Health Coverage
Pew Research Center Link to more items from this source
Oct. 6, 2020
"Among the public overall, 63% of U.S. adults say the government has the responsibility to provide health care coverage for all, up slightly from 59% last year. Roughly a third (37%) say this is not the responsibility of the federal government[.]"
4.  Cash Balance Plans Could Make a Comeback
National Public Pension Coalition Link to more items from this source
June 19, 2019
"The Pew Research Center and the Arnold Foundation have been actively pushing cash balance plans in Kansas, Kentucky, Alabama, and Virginia. They tout cash balance plans as a solution to the problem of pension underfunding, as some magic combination of defined benefit pension plans and defined contribution 401(k)-style plans. In reality, cash balance plans are a failure for public employees and taxpayers."
5.  Lower-Income Workers Less Likely to Take Needed Time Off
Pew Research Center Link to more items from this source
Apr. 4, 2017
"About one-in-six adults (16%) who have been employed in the past two years say there was a time during this period when they needed or wanted to take time off from work following the birth or adoption of their child, to care for a family member with a serious health condition or to deal with their own serious health condition, but were unable to do so. This figure rises to 30% among those with household incomes under $30,000."
6.  Americans Widely Support Paid Family and Medical Leave
Pew Research Center Link to more items from this source
Mar. 23, 2017
"Americans largely support paid leave, and most supporters say employers, rather than the federal or state government, should cover the costs. Still, the public is sharply divided over whether the government should require employers to provide this benefit or let employers decide for themselves, and relatively few see expanding paid leave as a top policy priority."
7.  More Older Americans Are Working Than in Recent Years
Pew Research Center Link to more items from this source
June 21, 2016
"More older Americans -- those ages 65 and older -- are working than at any time since the turn of the century, and today's older workers are spending more time on the job than did their peers in previous years ... The steady increase in the share of working older Americans contrasts with the adult population as a whole, whose employment-population ratio fell sharply during the Great Recession and has yet to recover to pre-slump levels."
8.  Attitudes Shift on Paid Leave: Dads Sue, Too
The New York Times; subscription may be required Link to more items from this source
Sept. 17, 2015
"The cases come against the backdrop of a societal shift in which many fathers are working less and spending more time with their children. A recent Pew Research Center analysis reported that from 1965 to 2011, fathers reduced the number of hours they devoted to paid work to about 37 from 42 each week on average and increased the number of hours they devoted to child care each week to about seven from 2.5."
9.  Americans Are Aging, But Not as Fast as People in Germany, Italy and Japan
Pew Research Center Link to more items from this source
May 21, 2015
"[In] the United States, the share of people aged 65 or older will rise dramatically by 2050. However, the U.S. isn't experiencing the same gray wave that many other developed nations in Europe and Japan are. At least one-in-five people in Japan, Germany and Italy are already 65 or older, and most other European countries are close behind. In the U.S., 13% of the population is 65 or older, ranking the country 42nd on this measure out of about 200 other places in 2010[.]"
10.  Among Eleven Nations, American Seniors Struggle More with Health Costs
Pew Research Center Link to more items from this source
Dec. 3, 2014
"[N]early one-in-five (19%) Americans ages 65 and older say they had a medical problem but did not visit a doctor, skipped a medical test or a treatment recommended by a doctor, did not fill a prescription or skipped doses of their medicine because of cost constraints. By comparison, a far smaller share of elderly Canadians (9%), British (5%) and French (3%) -- all of whom have government-funded health insurance programs -- reported cost-related constraints on access to health care."
11.  Retirement Planning: Half of You Answered 'No' to This Critical Question
Motley Fool Link to more items from this source
Nov. 7, 2014
"[A] recent Pew Research Center survey shows that the majority of people of all ages -- and more than 86% of young people -- believe that Social Security will pay either reduced or even no benefits when they retire.... A recent Bureau of Labor Statistics study reported that only 48% of people who worked in the private sector participated in an employee retirement plan. Let that sink in for a minute. Of the approximately 117 million private-sector workers in the U.S., potentially up to 61 million don't participate in a retirement plan through their work."
12.  OECD Finds Link Between Parental Leave and the Gender Pay Gap
Pew Research Center Link to more items from this source
Dec. 20, 2013
"Among 38 of the world's more developed nations, the United States has the least liberal government policies regarding paid parental leave, leading some to argue that this puts American women at a disadvantage as they navigate their careers But it also turns out that some countries that offer more liberal parental leave policies have higher pay gaps among men and women ages 30 to 34, according to analyses of 16 countries conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. OECD theorizes that this link may be driven by the fact that women are more likely than men to actually use their parental leave, and that time out of the work force is associated with lower wages."
13.  Among 38 Nations, U.S. Is the Outlier When It Comes to Paid Parental Leave
Pew Research Center Link to more items from this source
Dec. 12, 2013
"Of the 38 countries represented, the U.S. is the only one that does not mandate any paid leave for new mothers. In comparison, Estonia offers about two years of paid leave, and Hungary and Lithuania offer one-and-a-half years or more of fully-paid leave. The median amount of fully-paid time off available to a mom for the birth of a child is about five-to-six months."
14.  21% of Americans Without Health Insurance Do Not Use the Internet
Pew Research Center Link to more items from this source
Oct. 1, 2013
"While those who already have health insurance are urged to explore getting a new plan in the exchanges, most proponents say signing up the uninsured is a priority. Some of the groups most likely to not have health insurance are the same as those groups most likely to not be online. This includes Hispanics, those who have not attended college, and those living in lower-income households."
15.  As Health Care Law Proceeds, Opposition and Uncertainty Persist
Pew Research Center Link to more items from this source
Sept. 18, 2013
"Survey Highlights: ... [1] Just 25% say they have a very good understanding of how [the] law will impact them. [2] Uninsured Americans are divided over the law -- 49% approve, 46% disapprove. [3] GOP draws even with Democrats on handling health care. [4] 63% say [the] law hasn't affected them yet, but more expect that the impact will be negative than positive."
16.  Public Still Unwilling to Cut Entitlement Benefits to Reduce Deficit
Pew Research Center Link to more items from this source
Apr. 10, 2013
"[T]he public continues to say it is more important to keep Social Security and Medicare benefits as they are than to take steps to reduce the budget deficit. There has been little change in these opinions over the past two years. A [recent] survey found that 55% of Americans put the priority on keeping Social Security and Medicare benefits as they are over reducing the deficit. These majorities run across all age groups. In comparison, about a third (34%) say taking steps to reduce the deficit is more important."
17.  More People in Their 30s and 40s Worrying about Financing Retirement
Pew Research Center Link to more items from this source
Oct. 22, 2012
"[C]oncerns about retirement financing are now more heavily concentrated among younger and middle-aged adults than among those closer to retirement age -- a major shift in the pattern that had prevailed at the end of the recession. In 2009 it was 'Gloomy Boomers' in their mid-50s who were the most worried that they would outlive their retirement nest eggs. Today, retirement worries peak among adults in their late 30s -- many of whom are the older sons and daughters of the Baby Boom generation."
18.  For Many Discouraged Boomers, 'Retirement Age' Is a Moving Target
Kansas City Star Link to more items from this source
Aug. 19, 2012
"Boomers cruising toward a traditional retirement suffered a financial comeuppance in the prolonged economic slump that began in late 2007. The downturn sapped jobs, stock and housing values, and interest on savings. Many were also caught in the shift from defined-benefit pension plans to 401(k) plans that required workers to contribute toward their own retirement savings. Some didn't, a choice that will leave them short financially. Small wonder that, according to the Pew Research Center, boomers are the gloomiest of all age groups about the health and future of their finances."
19.  Moms Eye Part-Time Jobs to Achieve Work-Life Balance
The Christian Science Monitor Link to more items from this source
Sept. 18, 2007
Excerpt: A recent Pew Research Center survey found that when working mothers were asked about their 'ideal' situation, only 21 percent cited full-time work, down from 32 percent in 1997. Instead, 60 percent of this year's respondents cited part-time work as 'ideal,' up sharply from 48 percent a decade earlier, while 19 percent of employed moms this year said they'd prefer not to work outside the home at all.
20.  Survey Shows Enron Has Been Wake-Up Call to Retirement Plan Investors
Pew Research Center Link to more items from this source
Feb. 25, 2002
Excerpt: Enron has clearly affected the way Americans view the security of stock-based retirement accounts. A 58% majority said the major lesson of Enron was that such accounts may not be safe. [But that] is a significantly larger percentage than say that Enron shows more government regulation is needed, or that large corporations have too much clout in Washington.
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