Congressional Testimony
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Education and the Workforce. Testified regarding H.B. 2830, the “Pension Protection Act.” June 15, 2005.
U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. Testified on “Understanding the Economic Possibilities of Multiemployer Plans.” April 29, 2004.
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Education and the Workforce. Testified on “The National Erosion of Private Pensions.” February 7, 2002.
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Education and the Workforce. Testified on “The Local Economy and National Pension Issues.” January 31, 2002.
U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations, Committee on Education and the Workforce. Testified on “ERISA at 25; Has the Law Kept Pace with the Evolving Pension and Investment World?” February 15, 2000.
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means. Hearing on Oversight of Various Pension Issues. May 5, 1998.
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Social Security. Testified on "The Future of Social Security for this Generation and the Next." September 18, 1997.
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Education and the Workforce: Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations. Testified on "Defusing the Retirement Time Bomb: Encouraging Pension Saving." February 12, 1997.
U.S. Senate Democratic Policy Committee, Washington, DC. Testified on "American Insecurity Policy.” February 23, 1996.
U.S. Senate, Finance Committee, Washington, DC. Testified on "Pension Funds and Savings Rates." December 3, 1995.
U.S. Senate, Finance Committee, Subcommittee on Deficits, Debt Management, and Long Term Growth, Washington, DC. Testified on “The U.S. Savings Crisis.” December 7, 1994.
U.S. Senate, Finance Committee, Congressional Record Testimony on "Pensions and Aggregate Savings." December 4, 1994.
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Labor and Management, Congressional Record. Testified on "Joint Trusteeship of Pension Funds, H.R. 2664." February 28, 1990, pp. 210-228.
Research
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
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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.