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Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary for Retirement Mark Iwry testified about retirement savings plans and consumer education. He said that an insufficient number of Americans were not contri…

Social Security and Medicare’s two public trustees talked about the role of the public trustee. Charles Blahous and Robert Reischauer also touched on the solvency of the two entitlement prog…

A hearing was held on the shortcomings of the nation’s retirement system and how worker could obtain retirement security. The hearing focused on weaknesses weaknesses in the 401(k) retiremen…

At a discussion hosted by the Social Security Administration at the National Press Club, panelists discussed the future of Social Security and responded to audience questions.

Commission members questioned witnesses about the outlook for the Social Security program, as well as potential changes in Social Security.

The Senate Committee on Aging held a hearing and heard testimony on changes to Social Security could affect women.

The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on Social Security Reform. Witnesses including Reverend Jesse Jackson and Empower America’s Jack Kemp offered solutions to the program’s pr…

The panelists talked how reform would affect certain groups of the population. They focused on how individual accounts that have been proposed would hurt women in the system because they wou…

David Broder of the Washington Post moderated this panel on the declining importance of class in the U.S. The panelists examined how much class origins determines a citizen’s chances to succ…

Vice President Gore talked with reporters about a fourth-quarter increase in the Gross Domestic Product announced today by the Commerce Department. He took one question from the press before…

Alicia Munnell spoke about the administration’s economic accomplishments, which included inflation control and job growth, and strategies for dealing with continuing challenges, such as wage…

Vice President Gore and several members of President Clinton’s Cabinet briefed reporters on the administration’s economic program currently under consideration by a House-Senate conference c…

Several economists and business leaders spoke during the opening session of the economic conference called by the Clinton presidential transition team in the Robinson Convention Center in Li…

The National Academy of Social Insurance sponsored a panel that talked about public opinion on Social Security and the Budget.