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 [1] 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 [2]
- Conference Report: Toward a Universal, Secure, and Adequate Retirement System [3]
- Press Release [4]
- Retirement USA principles [5]
- What is Retirement USA? [6]
- Making the Case for a New System [7]
- Proposals for a New Retirement System [8]
- Remarks [9] by Karen Ferguson, Director, Pension Rights Center [10]
- Remarks [11] by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis
- Remarks [12] by Anna Burger, Chair, Change to Win [13] and International Secretary-Treasurer of the Service Employees International Union [14]
- Remarks [15] by Barbara Kennelly, President and CEO, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare [16]
- Remarks [17] by AFL-CIO [18] President Richard Trumka
- Remarks [19] by Algernon Austin, Director of the Race, Ethnicity and the Economy program at the Economic Policy Institute [20]
- Speaker Biographies [21]
- List of Organizations Supporting the Retirement USA principles [22]
- Photos from the Conference [23]
- Slideshow: Voices [24]
- Funders and Co-Sponsors [25]
- Web Cast [26]