Month: January 2025
NY Times Interviews Economist Alicia Munnell on Her Announced Retirement
By Karen Friedman For twenty-seven years, Alicia Munnell, the renowned economist and the Director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (CRR), has conducted nonpartisan research that has documented the strengths and inequities in the retirement system. Alicia and her academic colleagues at CRR, have authored important papers and briefs that have influenced […]
Bloomberg Law: AT&T’s Athene Pension Transfers Called Too Risky by Rights Group
“AT&T Inc. retirees challenging a transaction that shifted responsibility for funding nearly 100,000 pensions to an insurance company received support from the Pension Rights Center, which argued the move fell short of legal standards.”
Paying Tribute to Jimmy Carter, Pension Champion
By Karen Friedman When Jimmy Carter was elected President in 1976, I was a young whipper snapper living in an old, disheveled group house in Washington D.C. When I think back on that time, I fondly remember that his Administration—dedicated to energy conservation, peace and human rights—inspired me and many of my friends to become […]
