Too Many Americans Risk a Financially Strapped Retirement

In 2004, 43 percent of households were considered at risk, based on the center's analysis of a triennial Federal Reserve survey of consumer finances. In 2007, the number rose to 44 percent, the center now estimates based on that year's Fed survey. Without waiting for the next survey in 2010, center researchers decided to update the index in response to the recent economic crisis.

Too Many Americans Risk a Financially Strapped Retirement
Source: Courant.com