“44% of workers are ‘cautiously optimistic’ about meeting retirement goals, CNBC poll finds. Here are key planning steps at every age”
September 9, 2024
“Almost half, 44%, of workers in a new CNBC poll are “cautiously optimistic” about their ability to meet their retirement goals, and 27% say they are “realistic” about that happening.
About half, 52%, of millennials and 47% of Gen Xers said “paying off debts or loans” is the main reason they feel behind in retirement planning or savings.
Eighty-two percent of workers in that survey say achieving a comfortable retirement is “much harder or somewhat harder” to achieve than it was for their parents…”