- the impact of federal policies that encourage and discourage savings, including the tax code;
- the finances and operation of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and its interaction with private disability insurance;
- the interaction between Social Security and private savings, including DB and DC plans;
- the impact of long-term care needs on retirement security; and
- the role of homeownership and student debt.
hold roundtables and issue white papers highlighting challenges related to retirement savings, DC accounts, annuities, SSDI, and how housing, student loan debt and savings intersect;
- develop policy recommendations to address Americans’ future savings needs; and
- model the recommendations’ impact on retirement security and the federal budget.
- Todd F. Barth — President, Bowers Properties Inc.; Texas Teacher Retirement System Board member
- Jeff Bingaman — former Democratic U.S. senator from New Mexico; former Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Chairman; former member, Senate Committee on Finance and Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
- Charles P. Blahous III, Ph.D. — Public Trustee of Social Security/Medicare; Research Fellow, Mercatus Center and Hoover Institution
- James H. Douglas — former Republican governor of Vermont; Executive in Residence, Middlebury College; BPC Governors' Council member
- David Dreier — former Republican U.S. House member from California; former House Rules Committee Chairman; Annenberg-Dreier Commission Chairman
- Gail D. Fosler — President, GailFosler Group LLC; former Conference Board President and Chief Economist
- William G. Gale, Ph.D. — Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center Co-Director; Retirement Security Project Director; Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
- Teresa Ghilarducci — Professor, Bernard L. and Irene Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Analysis, The New School; Director, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New School
- C. Robert Henrikson — former MetLife, Inc. Chairman of the Board, President and CEO
- Brigitte C. Madrian, Ph.D. — Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management, Harvard University
- Lisa Mensah — Executive Director, Initiative on Financial Security, The Aspen Institute
- Robert D. Reischauer, Ph.D. — Former Director, Congressional Budget Office; Public Trustee of Social Security/Medicare; Distinguished Institute Fellow and President Emeritus, The Urban Institute
- Alan Reuther — former Legislative Director, United Auto Workers
- Dallas Salisbury — Employee Benefit Research Institute President and CEO
- Sylvester J. Schieber, Ph.D. — former Chairman, Social Security Advisory Board; Independent Pensions Consultant
- Antonio R. Villaraigosa — former Mayor of Los Angeles; Senior Fellow, BPC
BPC is a bipartisan non-profit organization that promotes solutions, through former elected and appointed officials, business and labor leaders, academics and advocates, to challenges facing the United States through analysis, negotiation and dialogue. Former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole and George Mitchell founded BPC in 2007.
John Iekel is Senior Writer and Editor for the NTSA Net portal.
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