Premise: 35 Increasing personal saving is vital to enhancing individual households' retirement security, to increasing national saving available to invest in the nation's capital stock, and ultimately to reducing the burden on future generations of financing government programs for the elderly.

Hypothesis: Increasing national saving is beneficial to both citizens and the economy.

Does the premise entail the hypothesis?

Select from the following.
(a). yes
(b). it is not possible to tell
(c). no
(b).