Re-Envisioning Retirement Security

On October 21, 2009, Retirement USA held a conference, Re-Envisioning Retirement Security, in Washington, D.C.  Labor Secretary Hilda Solis delivered the keynote address, and other notable speakers included Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO; Anna Burger, SEIU secretary-treasurer and chair of Change to Win; and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston.

Conference participants heard why a new private retirement system is needed; learned about the principles that should underlie a new system; and discussed proposals for a universal, secure, and adequate system for the future.  Retirement USA is an initiative that is working to create a system that, along with Social Security, will provide universal, secure, and adequate retirement income to future retirees.

Conference materials:

• Conference Agenda
• Conference Report: Toward a Universal, Secure, and Adequate Retirement System
• Press Release
• Retirement USA principles
• What is Retirement USA?
• Making the Case for a New System
• Proposals for a New Retirement System
• Remarks by Karen Ferguson, Director, Pension Rights Center
• Remarks by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis
• Remarks by Anna Burger, Chair, Change to Win and International Secretary-Treasurer of the Service Employees International Union
• Remarks by Barbara Kennelly, President and CEO, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare
• Remarks by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
• Remarks by Algernon Austin, Director of the Race, Ethnicity and the Economy program at the Economic Policy Institute
• Speaker Biographies
• List of Organizations Supporting the Retirement USA principles
• Photos from the Conference
• Slideshow: Voices
• Funders and Co-Sponsors
• Web Cast