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And it is one of the biggest financial challenges of our time, saving for retirement. And tonight we are hoping to shed some light on this issue which certainly ns of americans. Welcome to this special edition of nightly business im sue herera. Im Bill Griffeth in tonight for tyler mathisen. The vast majority of americans have under 1,000 in savings. And by some estimates, half of all americans have nothing put away at all for retirement. And this runs across pretty much all ages. Sharon epperson delves i reporter about ten years ago, galen murphy realized he never saved for retirement. Now hes 49 and still not saving. Nnot. I was hoping to in this next year. Reporter murphy earns about 42,000 a year working as a store manager at portlands house of vintage. The company has two stores, five fulltime employees, and no retirement plan. Murphy says he makes enough to pay his bills, barely. The biggest ones are going to be rent, student ....
And we are live on capitol hill, standing by for a discussion to get under way about political civility and bipartisanship with a series of lawmakers. It is the snacks and cocktails portion of the event hosted by georgetown. Well have live coverage when it gets under way here on cspan3. So were waiting for the discussion on political civility to get under way. A group of lawmakers coming by here on capitol hill, this just a day before President Trump is set to give his first state of the Union Address before a joint session of congress. Our state of the Union Coverage begins tomorrow night at 8 00 eastern with a preview. Well follow that with the president s speech at 9 00 and then get your reaction on the phone afterwards. All live on cspan. T also can watch at cspan. Org or listen on the free radio app. Earlier today w ....
Thank you all for coming, we are delighted to have you with us. Fromme is john carrr Georgetown University. Grateful to them for their help, the friends at the democracy department, who support our efforts at evil dialogue, at a time when it is more important than ever. We do large dialogues at the georgetown, and it would mention a couple of those at the end. Ido some convenient ones, probably the most important thing that we do, is reach out to Young Leaders here in washington. It is my experience, i am very old, as i am told by my children all the time my experience is that a lot of Young Leaders come to washington, many of them motivated to their faith. But they get pulled into the wars. The great temptation in washington is not corruption, i think, it is in this is in. Especially, it is cynicism. Thiswe are, i ....
Director of initiative on catholic social night at Georgetown University. We are very grateful to the Chaplains Office for their help and our friends at the Democracy Fund who support our efforts at civil dialogue at a time when it is more important than ever. Atl dialogue, at a time when it is more important than ever. We do large dialogues at the georgetown, and it would mention a couple of those at the end. Ido some convenient ones, probably the most important thing that we do, is reach out to Young Leaders here in washington. It is my experience, i am very old, as i am told by my children all the time my experience is that a lot of Young Leaders come to washington, many of them motivated to their fai ....
And david bratt from virginia. This is about an order an hour. Good morning, and welcome to the Heritage Foundation. This is the Sarah Allison auditorium, and we thank you all who are joining us on cspan or our website. For those inhouse, we would ask as a courtesy that you silence your mobile phones. For those watching online, you are welcome to send questions or comments to us at any time by simply emailing speaker heritage. Org. Hosting our guests tonight is jack spencer, the Vice President for heritages institute for economic freedom. Mr. Spencer oversees heritages research on a wide range of economic and trade issues. He previously served as director of heritages Economic Policy studies and spearheaded our work on lending taxes, regulation, energy and the ....