Polls Related to Retirement Security

  • A Shift in How Americans Plan to Fund Their Retirement (Gallup, May 2008). Future retirees expect less from Social Security, more from 401(k)s, part-time work. While only 3% of current retirees say part-time work is a major source of their retirement income, one in five future retirees expect to use part-time work as a major source of their retirement funding -- twice the 10% who had the same expectation in April 2001.
  • Fewer Americans Expect a Comfortable Retirement (Gallup, May 2008). Fifty-five percent fear they won’t be able to continue their current lifestyles. The percentage of those yet to retire who think they'll be able to live comfortably in retirement fell precipitously, dropping to only 46% from 53% a year ago and 59% in 2002.
  • What the Public Really Wants...on Retirement and Social Security (Century Foundation and Center for American Progress, January 2008). In this new brief from Ruy Teixeira's What the Public Really Wants...series, polling data consistently show that not having enough money for retirement is at the top of Americans’ economic concerns.
  • American Worker Survey (Rockefeller Foundation, May 2007). A national survey on economic security recently commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation from Yankelovich Research found that two thirds of all respondents would choose a job that guarantees health care and a pension over a job that pays more. The survey was conducted as part of the Rockefeller Foundation's American Workers Initiative.

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General Pension Studies
Defined Benefit vs. Defined Contribution Plans
Defined Benefit Plans
Defined Contribution Plans
Pension Plan Freezes, Changes, and Trends
Wealth, Savings and Retirement Reports
Women's Retirement Security
Polls Related to Retirement Security
Public Pension Plans