Engaged stakeholders are essential to the success of state-facilitated retirement savings proposals and programs. But when multiple voices contribute to the public discussion it’s important to monitor what is being said and to manage the message. We’ve got three top tips.

We talk with NEST's Will Sandbrook about universal workplace savings, emergency savings and the progress of NEST in the UK. We share States' legislative updates: Colorado, Missouri, New York, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. And check out program states rollout updates for CalSavers, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, and Vermont.

If you haven’t met Dr. Alicia Munnell, you are missing out! Alicia H. Munnell is the Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. She also serves as the director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. She has published many articles, authored numerous books, and edited several volumes on tax policy, Social Security, public and private pensions, and productivity. We talk about retirement risk, shortfalls and the opportunity to mitigate them, and Presidential Candidate views on Social Security, among other things.