Thursday, February 17, 2011

Upcoming event: RETHINKING RETIREMENT: THE PAST AND FUTURE OF SOCIAL SECURITY

The United States Studies Program and the Program on America and the Global 

Economy of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 

invites you to a Panel Discussion: RETHINKING RETIREMENT: THE PAST AND FUTURE OF SOCIAL SECURITY  

With panelists: 

  • Andrew Biggs; Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute 
  • Charles Blahous; Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation  
  • Ross Eisenbrey; Vice President, Economic Policy Institute 
  • Heidi Hartmann; President, Institute for Women's Policy Research 
  • Barbara Kennelly; President and CEO, National Committee to Preserve Medicare and Social Security 
  • Mitchell Orenstein; Associate Professor of European Studies, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University 

The  future of  Social  Security  is  central  to discussions of  the  current budget  crisis, but whether—and how—it can be reformed remains to be seen. Policymakers and analysts have  offered  a  range  of  proposals,  many  of  them  based  on  differing  demographic projections and assessments of the future solvency of the Social Security Fund. A group of leading experts will come together to discuss the current state of Social Security and how it will affect Americans' retirement plans in the future. 

Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 3:00pm – 5:00 p.m. 

Woodrow Wilson Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. 

This is a free public event, but RSVPs are requested. 

Please respond with acceptances only to usstudies@wilsoncenter.org. 

2 comments:

coberly said...

Funny, Biggs

I take the same demographic projections and asessments of the future solvency of the Social Security Fund as the Trustees.

Only I show, just like the Congressional Budget Office that it all amounts to a need for a tax raise that amounts, in todays terms, to about forty cents per week per year for the average worker.

You have been paid to "rethink" Social Security for decades and are positively brilliant at coming up with ways to mislead people about the same facts.

Andrew G. Biggs said...

Coberly, you know a few weeks ago when everyone was saying we should try to be more civil with people we disagree with? You should have listened.