Alicia Munnell: Married Couples Are in the Retirement Danger Zone

<p>Our guest on the podcast today is Alicia Munnell, the director of The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Alicia is a towering figure in the retirement research space. She and the team at the Center for Retirement Research produce articles and white papers on a wide variety of retirement-related topics, including Social Security, tax policy, retirement preparedness, and healthcare. Prior to joining Boston College in 1997, Alicia was a member of the president’s council of economic advisors and assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy. Previously, she spent 20 years at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where she became senior vice president and director of research in 1984. Alicia has written scores of articles and authored and edited many books over the years; most recently, she co-authored <i>Falling Short: The Coming Retirement Crisis and What to Do About It.</i><br /><br /><strong>Background</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://crr.bc.edu/about-us/people/bc-crr_bios/director/alicia-munnell/" target="_blank">Alicia Munnell bio</a><br /><a href="https://crr.bc.edu/author/alicia-munnell/" target="_blank">Alicia Munnell research archive</a> <br /><a href="https://crr.bc.edu/" target="_blank">Center for Retirement Research at Boston College</a><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=alicia+munnell" target="_blank">Books by Alicia Munnell</a> </p><p><strong>Retirement Preparedness</strong></p><p>“<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-there-really-a-retirement-savings-crisis-1492999861" target="_blank">Is There Really a Retirement-Savings Crisis?</a>” by Anne Tergesen, <i>The Wall Street Journal,</i> April 23, 2017.<br /><br />“<a href="http://cepr.net/images/stories/reports/wealth-of-households-2017-11.pdf" target="_blank">The Wealth of Households: An Analysis of the 2016 Survey of Consumer Finance</a>,” Center for Economic and Policy Research, November 2017. <br /><br />“<a href="https://crr.bc.edu/briefs/women-marriage-and-the-national-retirement-risk-index/" target="_blank">W