Pocket Guide: Equity to Reduce the Racial Wealth Gap
This pocket guide is for use by policy advocates, lawmakers, and program administrators to review...
Read moreIllinois is among the first states in the nation to pass retirement savings legislation in the form of Secure Choice. With the implementation of Secure Choice, workers in Illinois at qualifying businesses without access to an employment-based retirement plan will be automatically enrolled in a retirement savings program. An estimated 1.3 million (32.5%) Illinoisans who currently do not have access to workplace retirement plans will be potentially impacted by Secure Choice.
As Illinois moves toward Secure Choice implementation, we need to ensure that the program is addressing barriers to participation, especially among low-income workers, women, immigrants and workers of color.
This report examined barriers to saving for retirement among low-income workers and found:
Read the report, and check out the Secure Choice website.
IABG advised Heartland Alliance’s Social IMPACT Research Center on this report.
This pocket guide is for use by policy advocates, lawmakers, and program administrators to review...
Read moreThis letter, co-authored by FIAI partners, advocates for older adults and disability advocates,...
Read moreIn this letter, members of Financial Inclusion for All Illinois urge Governor Pritzker to sign HB...
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