Privitizing Social Security - Beyond the Theory (02/06-01 -
02-07/01)
A Cato Institute conference featuring Donald Marron, Martin
Feldstein, José Piñera, Michael Tanner, John
Zogby, and Wade Dokken.
The conference examined the need to privatize Social Security and how to do so, including how to finance the transition; how to regulate and administer individual accounts; how privatization will affect women, the poor, and minorities; and the politics of privatization.
Social Security: Is It "A Crisis That Doesn't Exist"? (10/05/00)
A Cato Institute policy forum featuring Andrew G. Biggs,
Social Security Analyst, Cato Institute; Dean Baker,
Coauthor, Social Security: The Phony Crisis; Richard
Jackson, Senior Advisor, The Concord Coalition; and Eugene
Steuerle, Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute.
Solving the Global Pensions Crisis II: The Privatization Revolution (03/09/00 - 03/10/00)
A Cato Institute conference featuring José Piñera, William
Shipman, Tim Penny, Milton Ezrati, Klaus
Friedrich, David Willetts, Charles Murray, Douglas
Atkin, and Fernando Solis Soberón.
The conference evaluated the experiences of countries that have privatized government pension plans, examined more recent moves toward privatization, and looked at issues for the future in both the United States and abroad.
The
Future of Social Security (08/14/99)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Michael Tanner, Director of Health
and Welfare Studies, Cato Institute; Lisa Davis, Senior Policy Analyst,
The Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare; Jim Hutter, Professor
of Political Science, Iowa State University; Scott Hodge, Senior Fellow
for Tax and Budget Policy, Citizens for a Sound Economy.
Presidential candidates Steve Forbes and Alan Keyes who were in
Ames, Iowa, for the Iowa Straw Poll participated in this Saturday forum on the
future of Social Security.
State and
Local Government Retirement Programs: Lessons in Alternatives to Social Security
(04/07/99)
A Cato policy forum featuring Rick Gornto, Designer and Architect,
Galveston Alternative Plan; Valerie VanDeweghe, Benefits Administrator,
City of San Diego; Thomas Lussier, Executive Director, Massachusetts
Teachers' Retirement Board; and Carrie Lips, Social Security
Analyst, Cato Institute.
Five million state and local workers are exempt from Social Security and instead participate in retirement plans administered on the state and local level. Those plans provide valuable information for Social Security reformers about the benefits and drawbacks of program structures. A panel of experts will discuss details of the state and local plans and the lessons they provide for Social Security.
Speech by José Piñera at the White House Conference on Social Security (12/9/98)
Social Security Reform In Chile
Chuck Scarborough of WNBC in New York presents a special investigative report
on the pension system in Chile. Features interviews with José Piñera
and various Chilean workers. Posted courtesy of NBC. (video, 13 minutes)
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