PROPOSALS eXAMINED
Below are proposals that were presented during the First Stage of the Conversation on Coverage. These proposals helped inform some of the deliberations of the Conversation's Second Stage.
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Universal Voluntary Accounts
Dean Baker
Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Blueprint for 401(k) Changes and the Future of 401(k)s
Ted Benna
President, 401(k) Association
The Pension ProSave Act
Senator Jeff Bingaman
Member, Senate Finance Committee
Promoting Individual Development Accounts and More Uniform Pension Coverage
Ray Boshara
Director, Asset Building Program, New America Foundation
Universal Savings Accounts
Michael Calabrese
Vice President and Director, Retirement Security Program, New America Foundation
The Individual Advantage Plan
Jim Davis
Principal, Milliman USA
The "Perfect" Retirement Plan
Douglas Ell
Principal, The Groom Law Group
De-linking Benefits for the Single Employer: Alternative Multiemployer Model
Teresa Ghilarducci
Professor, University of Notre Dame
How the Pension System Should be Reformed
Theodore Groom
Principal, Groom Law Group
Assuring Retirement Income for All Workers
Daniel Halperin
Stanley S. Surrey Professor of Law, Harvard University Law School
HR 1656 (1997): The Secure Assets for Employees (SAFE) Plan Act
Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-CT) and Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-ND)
A Progressive Pension Package
Peter Orszag
The ERISA at Fifty Proposal
Pamela Perun
Affiliated Scholar, The Urban Institute
and
Research Fellow, Initiative on Financial Security
The Portman-Cardin Bill
Congressman Robert Portman
Former Member, House Committee on Ways and Means
The Pensions 2000 Proposal
Norman Stein
Douglas Arant Professor of Law, University of Alabama School of Law