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What Keeps Single Women from Saving for Retirement?

Women's social roles—not to mention structural economic constraints—actually make it more expensive to be female in the United States. 

MSNBC

July 14, 2011

According to a recent Time magazine survey, only 27% of unmarried women without a high school diploma have enough money saved for retirement. On today’s Sound Off segment on MSNBC, Melissa Harris-Perry explains how women’s social roles—not to mention structural economic constraints—actually make it more expensive to be female in the United States, all of which keeps women from saving for the future.

Kevin Donohoe

MSNBC


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