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Headline is shameless click-bait. Percentage change is much more valuable than absolute dollars. From the article: "An increase in retirement savings of 0.6 percentage points [from 2010 to 2015]".

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Reading is fundamental. 0.6 on a rate of 6.2. That's roughly 10%. What would you do if your savings was 10% larger?

As the article also says, though, that's a ten percent increase. That's significant.

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