As CalSavers approaches its first employer deadline, we talk with Executive Director Katie Selenski about the impact the program is already having. What’s it like to work with employers during the pandemic, and how does the program approach some of California’s unique characteristics - as a very large, multicultural state, whose covered workforce by some measures is harder-pressed than most.

Maine - like every state - faces a set of both common and unique challenges when it comes to emergency savings and saving for retirement. We talk with Treasurer Henry Beck about the work he’s been doing to promote retirement security and increasing equity in the state. And of course we get his pandemic silver lining and a few insights from a born Mainer.

Emergency savings as a way to boost retirement savings? Tim Flacke, Co-founder and CEO of Commonwealth, has been giving this a lot of thought alongside his incredible group of peers. Get his insights here.