Michigan’s small businesses overwhelmingly support a public-private option for retirement savings

The vast majority of Michigan’s small-business owners want more done to support workers saving for retirement. That’s according to a new survey on behalf of “A-A-R-P Michigan”. The group’s Melissa Seifert [“sy-fert”] explains… “More than 40-percent of Michigan’s private-sector employees do not have access to a retirement-savings plan at work. These are workers at all levels of earnings, education, and backgrounds. Working together with our state-lawmakers and small businesses, we can fix that—by creating a new retirement-savings option for Michigan-workers. It’s a win for workers, and a win for businesses—and a win for our state.” One Michigan-business owner who supports the creation of a public-private retirement-savings option is Kari Vanderheuel—who runs both a restaurant and a coffee-shop in Alcona County… “My business is young and growing, but the turnover can be high. So, anything to entice people to stay longer—while helping them save for the future—is something [that] I support. I tend to employ younger people, and I wish [that] I could offer them something to help save for their future; if there was a program that was free and easy to implement, I would definitely be interested.” To learn more, visit “a-a-r-p”-dot-org-slash-“m-i”.