Congress must pass a law mandating that every worker in the country be automatically enrolled in a workplace retirement savings plan.
That recommendation, advanced by Alicia Munnell, the director at Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research, was perhaps the most aggressive policy proposal advanced during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on retirement policy Thursday.
Munnell was one of three experts summoned to give feedback on retirement policy suggestions made by a tax reform working group on savings and investment policy, convened last year at the behest of Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, chair of the Senate Finance Committee.
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