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The AARP will hold a conference on “Beyond 50: Financial Security in a Changing World,” on December 11, 2001, at the Georgetown University Research Building auditorium. The conference will explore the new forces impacting financial security for people age 50 and over, including Social Security reform, the role of pensions and savings, continued earnings through work, and health insurance questions.

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"Thursday's staff report 'does a terrific job of setting out both the stick and the carrot: the stick in the form of the financial crisis and the carrot in the form of a better Social Security system,' said Michael Tanner, director of the Social Security Privatization Project at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank that has strongly influenced the Bush administration's work in this area."

- Los Angeles Times
July 202001