America's Retirement Divide

The connection between work and retirement is a two-way street. Bad jobs lead to bad retirements, but retirement insecurity also forces older workers to accept bad jobs.

The challenges facing older workers and those facing retirees are often considered separately, but EPI and SCEPA’s Older Workers and Retirement Chartbook connects the dots.

This event will serve as an occasion for the release of the Chartbook and will focus on the challenges facing Black and Hispanic workers in preparing for retirement. Acting Social Security Commissioner Kilolo Kijakazi will kick off the discussion with an overview of Social Security’s importance to Black and Hispanic Americans. This will be followed by a panel discussion of how the employer-based retirement system poorly serves workers of color, amplifying employment disparities.

Featured speakers:
Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner, SSA
Siavash Radpour, Associate Research Director, ReLab at the New School
Tracey Gronniger, Directing Attorney, Economic Security Team, Justice in Aging
Nari Rhee, Director of the Retirement Security Program, UC Berkeley Labor Center
Ismael Cid-Martinez, Senior Policy Analyst, Joint Economic Committee
Valerie Wilson, Director, EPI Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy

EPI President Heidi Shierholz will be giving introductory remarks and RRF Foundation for Aging's Program Consultant Naomi Stanhaus will be giving closing remarks.

Moderator:
Teresa Ghilarducci, Bernard L. and Irene Schwartz Professor of Economics and Director, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA)

From the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC.
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