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Most people who have retirement savings set their money aside in a 401(k) or similar tax-deferred accounts. But 401(k)s are not available to everyone.
For those roughly 1.2 million Washingtonians who don’t have access to an employer-sponsored retirement account, lawmakers recently created an alternative: Washington Saves, an automatic individual retirement account program for private-sector employees.
