Financial Literacy Workshops: Helping Fill Savings Gaps

In nearly half of the states, state pension benefits have changed —  often in a way that reduces them. This not only hurts retirement accounts and income, it also heightens a sense of urgency in boosting participation in 403(b)s and 457(b)s in order to bolster employees’ savings. One of the ways to do that, writes Ellie Lowder in MarketBeat, is to focus on employees’ financial literacy.