Finance and Policy Writer

Lee Harriss Roberts

1 article 1999

Lee Harriss Roberts contributed to The Weekly Standard, writing about personal finance and retirement savings policy. Roberts authored a piece on the growth of 401(k) retirement plans for the magazine in 1999.

THE 401(K) BOOM

March 1, 1999 · Magazine

OVER THE PAST 15 YEARS, an important and underappreciated shift has occurred in U.S. pension policy. The change has been away from "defined-benefit" plans -- company pension funds that pay a guaranteed benefit based on years of employment -- toward "defined-contribution" plans -- a remarkable, and…