One of the survey’s biggest findings is that 61% of those 50 and up are worried they won’t have enough money for retirement.

Among AARP survey findings: 61% of Americans 50 and up are worried they won’t have enough money for retirement. And only 21 percent of people have a retirement plan.

An increasing number of people are worried that they won’t have enough money to live comfortably in retirement, and men aren’t as financially secure as they once were, according to an annual survey from AARP.

The AARP Financial Security Trends Survey, conducted in January and released in April, included interviews with more than 8,300 Americans over 30 across every state in the country. Conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago, the survey aims to analyze the financial experiences and attitudes among Americans.

One of the survey’s biggest findings is that 61% of those 50 and up are worried they won’t have enough money for retirement, Indira Venkat, senior vice president of research at AARP, told USA TODAY on Wednesday.

And if you break those numbers down even more, one in five of people who have not retired have no savings at all, Venkat said.

  • dmtalon@infosec.pub
    461·
    6 months ago

    What I hear is 61% of Americans should be voting for politicians that want to support and bolster social security.

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
      114·
      6 months ago

      Are those a thing? Where I live we have a liberal government and they don’t give a single shit about the working class, just like the conservatives

      • meowMix2525@lemm.ee
        41·
        6 months ago

        Well yeah, because liberal != progressive or even remotely leftist.

        Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were both (neo)liberals.

        • DragonTypeWyvern
          2·
          6 months ago

          Social Democrats are also a kind of liberal, but most Americans seem like they just keep right on heading towards democratic socialism or anarchism if they’re already prepared to reject neoliberalism.