| 9:30 – 9:50 a.m. |
Introductory remarks
Karen Ferguson, Director, Pension Rights Center |
| 9:50 – 10: 00 a.m. |
Margot Brandenburg, Associate Director, The Rockefeller Foundation |
| 10:00 – 10:10 a.m. |
The Honorable Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor |
| 10:10 – 10: 25 a.m. |
Anna Burger, Chair, Change to Win, and International Secretary-Treasurer, Service Employees International Union |
| 10:25 – 10:35 a.m. |
Barbara Kennelly, President and CEO, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare |
| 10:35 – 10:50 a.m. |
Richard Trumka, President, AFL-CIO |
| 10:50 – 11:00 a.m. |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. |
Panel on “Principles for a New Retirement System” Moderator: Karen Friedman, Executive Vice President and Policy Director, Pension Rights Center
Panelists:
- Universal: Ross Eisenbrey
Vice President, Economic Policy Institute
- Secure: Maria Freese
Director of Government Relations and Policy, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare
- Adequate: Stephen Abrecht
Director of Benefits and Capital Stewardship, Service Employees International Union
Commentators:
- Leticia Miranda
Associate Director, Economic and Employment Policy Project, National Council of La Raza
- Algernon Austin
Director of the Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy Program, Economic Policy Institute
- Amy Matsui
Senior Counsel, National Women’s Law Center
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| 12:10 – 12:40 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 12:40 – 1:20 p.m. |
Luncheon Speaker
David Cay Johnston
Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and former New York Times reporter, “A journalist’s perspective on retirement policy issues.” |
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| 1:20 – 1:30 p.m. |
Norman Stein
Douglas Arant Professor of Law, University of Alabama School of Law and Chair, Retirement USA Proposal Review Committee: Overview of proposal selection process |
| 1:30 – 2:45 p.m. |
Proposal Panel #1
Moderator: Charles Jeszeck
Acting Director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security, Government Accountability Office
Presenters:
- Teresa Ghilarducci
Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Professor in Economic Policy Analysis, New School for Social Research and Director of the Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis
- Mark Ugoretz
President, ERISA Industry Committee
- Glenn Beamer
Director of Public Health Programs and Associate Professor, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Discussants:
- Michael Calabrese
Vice President, New America Foundation
- Richard Ferlauto
Director of Corporate Governance and Public Pension Programs, American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees
- Shaun O’Brien
Senior Vice President for Economic Security Strategy, Office of Social Impact, AARP
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| 2:45 – 3:00 p.m. |
Coffee Break |
| 3:00 – 4:15 p.m. |
Proposal Panel #2 Moderator: Emily Kessler
Senior Fellow, Intellectual Capital, Society of Actuaries
Presenters:
- Nancy Altman
Author, The Battle for Social Security: From FDR’s Vision to Bush’s Gamble
- Regina Jefferson
Professor, Columbus School of Law, Catholic University
- Gene Kalwarski
Consultant, Cheiron/ United Food and Commercial Workers Union
Discussants:
- Carol Gold
Former Director, Employee Plans Division, Internal Revenue Service
- David Madland
Director of the American Worker Project, Center for American Progress
- John Turner
Director, Pension Policy Center
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| 4:15 p.m. |
Closing Remarks |
| 4:30 p.m. |
Adjourn |
