Obama proposes retirement savings expansions

Published January 28, 2014 5:00am ET



President Obama outlined two plans for increasing Americans’ retirement savings in his State of the Union address Tuesday night.

Pointing out that most workers do not have pensions, Obama first announced that the Treasury will create a new kind of savings account, called MyRAs (a play on Individual Retirement Account, or IRAs), to allow workers to invest in risk-free Treasury assets.

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