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[applause] good morning and welcome to the center for American Progress. My name is carla martin. Im the the Vice President for policy. It is my honor to welcome to this exciting event. Our lineup today is a real testament to the importance of this issue to this administration and to president obama. Nearly one in three americans has some type of criminal record that creates barriers to employment, housing and many other pathways to opportunity. Some americans with criminal records are even barr...

Good morning, everybody. So we will shift gears now building on the remarks from representative pose and representative crowly. We want to do three things. First we vpt to a conversation about what the pba accomplished and what was left undone. That is the purpose of this conversation. We will get indepth into it with really great speakers into what happened in the ten years since the tpa was passed, what it means for retirement in america, and what more needs to be done and hopefully that will ...

Have you put much thought into your retirement? Unfortunately, most of us don’t. And, that could have serious ...

But with many exemptions, the legislation is unlikely to make a substantial difference.

--The Workplace Solutions group within Morningstar Investment Management LLC, a subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc., a leading provider of independent investment research, today launched the Morningstar Center for Retirement and Policy Studies. We want to change that, "said Aron Szapiro, head of retirement studies and public policy at Morningstar, Inc./...

Research shows that replacing target-date fund equity allocations with private equity can boost retirement income adequacy for participants who have access to a plan and invest in a target-date fund.     

Public Sector Gen X Workers Face More Outstanding Retirement Plan Loans Likely feeling the same financial squeeze as their private sector counterparts, the new Public Retirement Research Lab also found they are contributing less to retirement savings. Reported by Public sector Generation X workers have taken more retirement plan loans than any other age group, according to a recent survey by the Public Retirement Research Lab (PRRL) that measured data in public sector defined contribution (DC) ...

Sound Financial Planning for Retirement  Share   Share Exercising can be a pain when were way out of shape (I know because I was 44 pounds overweight once). But thats exactly when we need to do it, starting slowly if we must and as part of an overall, well thought-out plan to improve our health and fitness. The same is true about our finances, with todays tough economic times demanding - but not always receiving - a greater commitment on our part to sound financial planning, even if we start...