The Genius of America

Posted in World of Work, economy on Thursday, October 18th, 2007 at at 12:32 pm by TheRanter

Somehow, I think this one fact says something essential about Americans and why we believed that Reagan would lower taxes, increase spending and balance the budget.

  • 62% of American workers expect to receive a pension upon retirement
  • 41% of American workers actually have a pension plan

Life just doesn’t work that way people.

Source: Employee Benefit Research Institute, 2007 Retirement Confidence Survey, cited in “In the Vanguard”, summer 2007.

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