Tag: retirement

Piggy bank in vice

U.S. workers’ wages, adjusted for inflation, are stagnating, but their share of health care costs keeps going up. “Something has got to give, right? That something could very well be the 401(k) or 403(b) plan,” said Mark Zoril, a personal financial planner and benefits adviser to small companies. Six in 10 workers agreed: the rising…

disappearing workers

If two people – one black, one white – have good jobs with comparable incomes, the black person would still be less likely to have a taxable investment account, such as a mutual fund, a new study finds. Numerous reports have shown that black Americans have fewer retirement and other savings accounts, and less money…