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Why Will the Great Recession Affect Retirement Incomes?

Document date: June 30, 2011
Released online: June 30, 2011

Karen E. Smith, a senior research associate at the Income and Benefits Policy Center, explains the reasons why the Great Recession has hit retirement savings so hard, what age and socio-economic groups have been hit the hardest, and how economic behavior might change as a result.


 

 



Topics/Tags: | Retirement and Older Americans


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