Obama Wants Millions of Americans in His Retirement Plan. So Far He’s Got 20,000
It’s only one year in and could grow faster with a TurboTax push and inclusion in retirement savings programs being launched by states.
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If myRA, President Obama’s signature retirement plan, were a private-sector startup, it would probably be getting some heat from its venture capital backers right about now.
Two years after the president used his State of the Union speech to direct the Treasury Department to “create a new way for working Americans to start their own retirement savings plan” and a year after its national rollout, the myRA program has a long way to go to help the millions of Americans that a White House blog about the program envisions.