Government help may be required to solve the retirement crisis,says a MarketWatch report, and among the steps it should take todo so are improved Social Security benefits and auto-IRAs.

The actions of the government under the Trump administrationthus far have been to overturn previous efforts to allow states toset up retirement plans for workers without running afoul offederal pension laws, the report says.

It points toward the resolution signed by Trump last month tokill the safe harbor that had been created bythe Labor Department to help the states launch retirement plans forworkers in the private sector whose employers don’t offer suchplans.

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