Retirement, Pensions, & Social Security

REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque--U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta speaks at the SelectUSA Investment Summit in National Harbor.

Up Front

Millennials don’t save for enough retirement — but Congress can help

Robert C. Pozen

Sunday, July 16, 2017

REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni -- A piggy bank is seen among rubbles that burned during the Station Fire in Los Angeles.

Up Front

Striking the right balance on risk for state and local pensions

Anna Malinovskaya and David Wessel

Monday, July 17, 2017

QUALITY REPEATMaria Rita, 43, carries collected water at the Kaeta settlement in Maracas in Bahia state, northeast Brazil May 4, 2012. While a swath of the Brazilian Amazon is under a state of emergency as rivers overflow in one of the worst floods ever, the country's northeastern region faces its worst drought in the last 30 years, affecting well over 500 towns and cities, according to data from different government monitoring agencies. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes - RTSIMKD

Future Development

Rethinking the universalism versus targeting debate

Raj M. Desai

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

The frame of a 2015 Ford Mustang vehicle moves down the production line at the Ford Motor Flat Rock Assembly Plant in Flat Rock, Michigan, August 20, 2015. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook - RTX1OYPX

The Avenue

Failure to adjust: The case of auto-IRA

Mark Muro

Monday, May 8, 2017

Reports

Retirement, Pensions, & Social Security

Retirement: Will boomers go bust…or only millennials and Gen Xers?

Joshua Gotbaum

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Retirement, Pensions, & Social Security

Retirement plans for contingent workers: Issues and options

William G. Gale, Sarah E. Holmes, and David C. John

Friday, September 23, 2016

Retirement, Pensions, & Social Security

You get what you pay for: Guaranteed returns in retirement saving accounts

William G. Gale, David C. John, and Bryan Kim

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Retirement, Pensions, & Social Security

How would investing in equities have affected the Social Security trust fund?

Alicia H. Munnell, Anqi Chen, Anthony Webb, Gary Burtless, and Wenliang Hou

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Retirement, Pensions, & Social Security

Financing state and local pension obligations: Issues and options

William G. Gale and Aaron Krupkin

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Blog Posts

Teacher Jaclyn Kruljac speaks to her students in 5th grade class at Walsh Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois, March 1, 2013. According to officials in U.S. President Barack Obama's administration, possible consequences of impending across-the-board U.S. government budget cuts, Illinois will lose approximately $33.4 million in education, putting around 460 teacher and aide jobs at risk that would receive funding. REUTERS/Jim Young

Brown Center Chalkboard

Another reason to stop ignoring teacher pensions

Marguerite Roza

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

A woman points at the world's smallest 1000-piece puzzle made by Beverly Enterprises Inc. at the International Tokyo Toy Show

Brown Center Chalkboard

An underfunded disaster awaiting taxpayers? Pension puzzles part II

Dick Startz

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

A Newark Prep Charter School student listens to math teacher Faiza Sheikh, give a lesson at the school in Newark, New Jersey April 16, 2013. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION) - RTR3NGIU

Brown Center Chalkboard

Pension incentives and teacher retention

Cory Koedel

Friday, September 30, 2016

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Events

2016

Sep

Past Event

Retirement security in the new economy: Access and guarantees

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Not just for the professionals? Understanding equity markets for retail and small business investors

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

Helping America plan for retirement

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

Washington, DC

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Related Books

Closing the Deficit

Edited by Gary Burtless and Henry Aaron

2013

State and Local Pensions

By Alicia H. Munnell

2012

The Decline in Saving

By Barry P. Bosworth

2012

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Experts

Gary Burtless

The John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

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Robert C. Pozen

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Pozen

David C. John

Deputy Director - Retirement Security Project

@dcjretiresecure

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Multimedia

Income Inequality & Social Mobility

The rich-poor life expectancy gap

Fred Dews and Gary Burtless

Friday, February 19, 2016

Medicare & Medicaid

@ Brookings Podcast: Automatic Spending Cuts and Programs for the Poor

Friday, December 30, 2011

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More on Retirement, Pensions, & Social Security

A worker with Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) walks on a street.

The road to national retirement security goes through the states

Joshua Gotbaum

Monday, May 1, 2017

How the growing gap in life expectancy may affect retirement benefits and reform

Alan J. Auerbach, Kerwin Charles, Courtney C. Coile, William G. Gale, Dana Goldman, Ronald Lee, Charles M. Lucas, Peter R. Orszag, Louise M. Sheiner, Bryan Tysinger, David N. Weil, Justin Wolfers, and Rebeca Wong

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Unemployed worker Rose Mary Golden-Pasley, 59, (L) looks for a job online at the Michigan Works office in Lansing, Michigan July 22, 2009. Michigan's official unemployment rate hit 15.2 percent in June, easily higher than any other U.S. State. After more than a century of making cars, the U.S. state of Michigan is retraining thousands of unemployed workers for new careers now that many of their jobs may be gone for good. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - RTR26DLE

How to increase retirement savings of 60 million employees

Robert C. Pozen

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Will Congress undermine retirement coverage, too?

Joshua Gotbaum

Friday, March 17, 2017

Let’s give workers a retirement savings plan at work

Gary Burtless

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Members of the Committee of retired Teachers of Puerto Rico's Teachers Federation protest against the underfunding of their pension system in San Juan, March 18, 2016. The signs read, "You don't play with my retirement." Picture taken March 18, 2016. To match Special Report PUERTORICO-PENSIONS/ REUTERS/Alvin Baez - RTSE0ZU

The great failure: Retirement pensions in Latin America

Santiago Levy

Friday, January 27, 2017

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