Location: The Heritage Foundation's Lehrman Auditorium
With the looming retirement security crisis facing our country,
policy-makers from both parties are focused on ways to strengthen
pensions and increase savings. David John of The Heritage
Foundation and J. Mark Iwry of The Retirement Security Project will
propose a new plan for Universal IRAs that would provide a
relatively simple, cost-effective way to increase retirement
security for the estimated 71 million workers without plan
coverage. While reforms currently being debated would improve
employer-sponsored plans, this proposal - the Universal IRA - is a
way that employees of smaller businesses can choose to save for
retirement by allowing their employers regularly transfer an amount
from their paycheck to an IRA.
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More About the Speakers
David C. John
Senior Research Fellow,
The Heritage Foundation
J. Mark Iwry
Senior Adviser,
The Retirement Security Project, and
Non-Resident Senior Fellow,
The Brookings Institution
David Certner
Director,
Federal Affairs,
AARP
Peter R. Orszag
Director,
The Retirement Security Project, and
Senior Fellow,
The Brookings Institution
Alison Acosta Fraser
Director,
Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies,
The Heritage Foundation