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Can America Save Itself? Tax Reform, Savings and Financial Security

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Channel: New America · 2013 · News & Politics

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Can America Save Itself?
Tax Reform, Savings and Financial Security

A potential push on tax reform offers Congress a chance to solve one of the biggest threats to Americans' financial security: the lack of household savings. Nearly half of American households lack the cash savings to weather a sudden financial crisis, such as an accident or a job loss.

At this breakfast event, some of the nation's top experts on savings and financial security offer their ideas on the current critical role of tax policy in savings and what tax policy can do to help all Americans build bigger nest eggs for their futures.

PARTICIPANTS

Keynote panel:
Rep. Jim Gerlach (R-PA)

Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA)

Jonathan Mintz
Commissioner, New York City Department of Consumer Affairs

Moderator
Andrea Levere
President, CFED 

Featured experts:
Reid Cramer
Director, Asset Building Program, New America Foundation

Pamela Everhart
Senior Vice President, Benefit Policy Development & Thought Leadership, Fidelity Investments

David John
Senior Research Fellow in Retirement Security & Financial Institutions, The Heritage Foundation

Lisa Mensah
Executive Director, Aspen Institute Initiative on Financial Security

Moderator
Bob Friedman
Founder, CFED (Moderator)

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