When you look at the median household retirement savings for all ages, it is $57,000 for full-time workers and only $23,000 for part-time workers. Compare this to what financial pundits preach today: The average couple will need between $1 million to $1.5 million to retire comfortably! The disconnect and disparity is obvious.
The financial impact of COVID has forced many families to spend any savings they had, including taking money out of 401(k)s. “Let’s see, do I pay my mortgage, put food on the table, take my child to the doctor or save for retirement.” What would you do?
Consequently, we face a serious crisis for the next two generations of retirees. Both Millennials and GenXers have grown up and become adults in a time of great crisis, complete with real estate busts, fewer jobs, financial implosion and now the pandemic.
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One key economic goal is to create the virtuous cycles of innovation and jobs that already occur in many coastal cities.
A farm near Allen, Neb., last year. In much of the middle of the country, population loss and economic decline have fed on each other, a cycle the Biden administration hopes to break. Credit.Brian Lehmann for The New York Times
May 5, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Last week, the Census Bureau said that the last decadeâs population growth was the slowest in generations. Also last week, President Biden addressed Congress and laid out a wide-ranging, multi-trillion dollar economic agenda.