Do you have enough saved for when you stop working . If youre like most americans, the answer is no. More than half have 10,000 or less put away. The question comes with the question about Social Security. Retirement in the u. S. Is becoming increasingly selffunded. In 1979, 38 of private employers offered pensions. Now its just 13 . A guaranteed retirement benefit is still common for government workers and union members, but private employers are more than likely to offer 401 ks. The 401k accounts can rise and fall with the stock market. The great rescission of 2008 wiped out the Retirement Savings of many americans. Not all workers have access to 401 k plans. More than 30 million americans have no access to retirement plans because they work for small businesses. One third of americans have nothing saved tore retie for retirement. Its even worse for women. Our next guest says most wont have enough saved to retire comfortably unless the government starts making changes. Theresa is the
Than half have 10,000 or left put away. What can be done to get americans to save more . Thats our cover story. Retirement in the u. S. Is becoming increasingly selffunded. In 197938 of private employers offer pension. Now its just 13 . The guaranteed retirement benefit is still common for government workers and union members, but private employers are more likely to offer 401 k s, employees put a portion of their pretax salary into taxdeferred accounts. Employers can match those contributions, although they dont have to. Unlike pensions which pay a fixed amount, 401 k s can rise and fall with the stock market. The Great Recession temporarily wiped out of the Retirement Savings of many americans. Not all workers have action to 401 k plans. Nor than 30 million americans have no employersponsored plans. In fact one third of americans overall have nothing saved for retirement. Its even worse for women. 38 have no money saved compared to 30 of men. Over the next two decades, nearly 10,000
Put away. What can be done to get americans to save more . Thats our cover story. Retirement in the u. S. Is becoming increasingly selffunded. In 197938 of private employers offer pension. Now its just 13 . The guaranteed retirement benefit is still common for government workers and union members, but private employers are more likely to offer 401 k s, employees put a portion of their pretax salary into taxdeferred accounts. Employers can match those contributions, although they dont have to. Unlike pensions which pay a fixed amount, 401 k s can rise and fall with the stock market. The Great Recession temporarily wiped out of the Retirement Savings of many americans. Not all workers have action to 401 k plans. Nor than 30 million americans have no employersponsored plans. In fact one third of americans overall have nothing saved for retirement. Its even worseor 38 have no money saved compared to 30 of men. Over the next two decades, nearly 10,000 americans will reach retirement age eve
Joining us now hillsdale professor of history, portrayal of american conservatism. Professor hart, whats the definition of an evangelical . Thats a hard question but the simple one that i heard used is anybody who like billy graham. Our viewers may not know who billy graham. It means someone who has had a personal relationship with jesus, kind of bornagain experience. Theres a longer history and a longer answer when you get in that history. Host can you lump evangelicals in one position or another . Guest you can in some way if you look ethically of people of british decent or englishspeaking background. Those protestants were important of formation in 20th century and also important constituency of regan and bush coalitions. Theres affinity between that english background or scottish background protestants and with the Republican Party and people of dutch or german decent may have been at wasnt point in the Democratic Party because the democrats were a coalition of ethnic groups and s
States. Next saturday and sunday, we are live from the 28th annual annual southern festival of books in nashville with all day author programs. It features the likes of beth macy on the jim crow south, the carter presidency and history of the spanish civil war. Thats a look at some of the author programs book tv is covering this week. Many of these events are open to the public. Look for them to air in the near future on book tv on cspan2. Good evening everyone. My husband and i on the bookstore. I want to know if all of you can hear me. We have a new sound system. Doesnt work . Great, wonderful. We are obviously thrilled, honored to be celebrating the publication of jfk and the reagan revolution. We have two coauthors with us, a man who needs no introduction and his coauthor who is the associate professor and chair of the department of history of the Sam Houston State University and the two of them worked on the book together and they will be talking about it together and we are so th