Retirements at risk / Alicia H. Munnell -- Expanding participation in America's workplace retirement system / Gary Burtless -- Financial market turbulence and social security reform / Gary Burtless -- The plan to save American workers' retirements / Teresa Ghilarducci -- Learning from...

As his new term begins, President George W. Bush has been trying to focus his domestic agenda on what he calls the "ownership society", a sweeping vision of an America in which more citizens would hold significant assets and be free to make their own choices about providing for their health care...

This paper presents four policy options to make Social Security sustainable under the coming demographic shift: 1) increase payroll taxes by 6 percentage points, 2) reduce the replacement rates of the benefit formula by one-third, 3) raise the normal retirement age from sixty-six to...