Over 40% of Americans are heading toward retirement ‘blind’ — with no plan Nearly half of Americans haven’t calculated what they’ll need in retirement A total of 42% of Americans have never calculated how much money they’ll need in retirement, according to a new report from Evergreen.ai, a financial-planning platform. Even those closer to retirement are dodging the task: One-third of those who expected to retire within the next 15 years have avoided running their retirement numbers, per the report. Jessica Hall is a retirement reporter for MarketWatch.
She was an Age Boom Academy Fellow at Columbia University and completed the Leadership Exchange on Ageism. She previously worked at Mainebiz, the Portland Press Herald and the Maine Sunday Telegram, where she and her team earned a Scripps Howard Award for Community Journalism for a series on aging. She spent 17 years at , covering mergers and acquisitions, telecommunications, and airlines.
She started her career in Baltimore at the Daily Record and the Baltimore Business Journal. She has also written for Barron’s and other publications.
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