{"id":98019,"date":"2026-03-17T14:33:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=98019"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:34:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:34:44","slug":"americans-retirement-accounts-and-hardship-withdrawals-hit-new-highs-heres-what-to-know-feingold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/03\/17\/americans-retirement-accounts-and-hardship-withdrawals-hit-new-highs-heres-what-to-know-feingold\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans&#8217; retirement accounts \u2013 and hardship withdrawals \u2013 hit new highs. Here&#8217;s what to know [Feingold]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/03\/americans-retirement-accounts-hardship-withdrawals-new-highs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Americans&#8217; retirement accounts \u2013 and hardship withdrawals \u2013 hit new highs. Here&#8217;s what to know<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from weforum.org by Spencer Feingold<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Last year, US retirement account balances rose at double-digit rates, driven by strong market performance and steady contributions.<\/li>\n<li>At the same time, hardship withdrawals increased, highlighting growing short-term financial stress.<\/li>\n<li>The trend underscores the importance of financial education and resilience to support long-term retirement security.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC<\/em>:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>I&#8217;m hoping that we are doing a better job in the United States on educating our youth on investing, saving, and developing better legal knowledge (i.e., the need for wills, estate planning, trusts, etc.).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans&#8217; retirement accounts \u2013 and hardship withdrawals \u2013 hit new highs. Here&#8217;s what to know &#8212; from weforum.org by Spencer Feingold Last year, US retirement account balances rose at double-digit rates, driven by strong market performance and steady contributions. At the same time, hardship withdrawals increased, highlighting growing short-term financial stress. The trend underscores the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,324,72,306,343,211,37,46,285,560,480,66,89,50,321,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-curriculum","category-daniel-s-christian","category-economics","category-education","category-funding-grants","category-future","category-k-12-related","category-legislation-legislatures","category-parents-guardians","category-society","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-united-states","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98020,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98019\/revisions\/98020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}