News
I spoke on December 11 at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research in New York. The title of the seminar was "Americans Face Rising Economic Insecurity: What Can Be Done? A Special Symposium on the Crisis in the U.S. Pensions System." You can now view the webcast online here.
Featuring:
Jacob Hacker, Yale University
Author of The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families,Health Care, and Retirement--And How You Can Fight Back
Robin Blackburn, The New School for Social Research
Author of Age Shock: How Finance is Failing Us
Teresa Ghilarducci, University of Notre Dame
Author of The End of Retirement (forthcoming)
With discussant Bob Kerrey, President of The New School
Americans face an indisputable crisis of the private pensions system and the appropriate policy response remains unclear. Three prominent researchers discuss their recent books on the subject. They will each identify the causes and scope of the problem, and outline proposals for what can be done.
About
Biography
Teresa Ghilarducci is the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Chair of Economic Policy Analysis and the director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research as of January 2008. Her new book, When I'm Sixty Four: The Plot against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them, Princeton University Press, investigates how to revive the promise of retirement to working Americans. Ghilarducci taught economics at the University of Notre Dame for 25 years. > Read More
Recent Journal Entry
The 2008 $168 billion stimulus package is better than it would have been without grants to Social Security receipients. Instead of small amounts of money to each houshold we could have put some money to neighborhood schools, fixed our roads and bridges, and boost our national welath. On another matter here are ten books undergraduates should read before they graduate. Read More....
News
On November 20, 2007, Dr. Ghilarducci participated in the Economic Policy Institute's latest "Agenda for Shared Prosperity" event in Washington, DC. At the event, she unveiled a briefing paper, Guaranteed Retirement Accounts, which outlines her vision for combining the best features of traditional defined-benefit pensions and 401(k)-style defined-contribution plans.