Ben Steverman

Two-thirds of all Americans don’t contribute anything to a 401(k) or other retirement account available through their employer.

Thinking about taking a job at a small company? Don’t expect a good retirement plan.

But employer auto-enrollment, rather than employee financial intelligence, may be the reason.

For Americans, few decisions are as financially consequential as choosing when to take Social Security. Or as hard.

The goal in California, Oregon, Illinois, Maryland, and Connecticut over the next few years is to give nearly every worker the chance to save for retirement at work.

Baby boomers suffer disproportionately from its financial fallout — especially women.

Americans are addicted to their jobs. U.S. workers not only put in more hours than workers do almost anywhere else. They’re also increasingly retiring later and taking fewer vacation days.

A startup has a way for workaholic Americans to get something for those days they just can’t take off.

Retirement plans lose touch with almost a million workers a year.

They are working at ages when their mothers were retired. Expect the trend to continue, experts say.