Building Wealth through Oregon’s Retirement Savings Program

Oregon’s state-sponsored auto-enrollment retirement program for workers whose employers don’t offer pensions: the program has helped some workers save, but others opted out. Wharton Prof. Olivia S. Mitchell examines the successes and shortcomings of the program, in a paper featured in the latest NBER Digest (see also https://whr.tn/3rUTr2T)