Ric Edelman chats with Doug Holtz-Eakin, President of the American Action Forum and former director of the Congressional Budget Office, about the tough choices Congress needs to make to secure Social Security before it’s too late.
Read MoreRic Edelman speaks with Josh Gotbaum, a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution and former Director of the U.S. Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, about changes workers should make to prepare for retirement in an era with longer lifespans and also how the government can open pathways to retirement income for workers.
Read MoreThe National Academy of Social Insurance offers a primer of Social Security benefits, finances, and policy options. Click here to view the primer.
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Washington, D.C.– Funding Our Future will publicly kick off the campaign to strengthen America’s retirement security at a reception Tuesday evening and is announcing 21 new educational, executive, corporate, and associate partnerships. The campaign, initiated earlier this year, now has 31 partner organizations committed to educating policymakers and the public about why retirement security should […]
Read MoreRic Edelman sits down with Bob Kerrey, former Democratic Senator from Nebraska, to talk about Congress’s continued inaction on Social Security reform and what Americans can do about it.
Read MoreRic Edelman chats with Laurie Rowley, Co-Founder and President of the National Association of Retirement Plan Participants (NARPP), on how individuals and businesses can harness financial education and new technologies to boost savings.
Read MoreRic Edelman sits down with Kent Conrad, former Democratic Senator from North Dakota and co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Commission on Retirement Security and Personal Savings, to discuss viable paths to Social Security reform, despite its status as the so-called “third rail” of American politics.
Read MoreRic Edelman is joined by Jamie Hopkins, Associate Professor at the American College of Financial Services, to discuss ways to rewire retirement planning, both in terms of saving in advance as well as how people spend down their nest-egg in retirement.
Read MoreRic Edelman is joined by Jason Fichtner, Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center and former Deputy Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, to consider what could happen to the beneficiaries of Social Security if no action is taken before the program’s trust fund is depleted.
Read MoreRic Edelman chats with Cindy Hounsell, President of the Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement, to discuss the particular problems that women face in retirement and what can be done to address them.
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