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Trumka: Retirement Security Promise Must Be Kept

by Seth Michaels, Oct 21, 2009

 
   

The ability to retire after a lifetime of hard work is not just an economic issue, it’s a moral one, said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, speaking today at the Retirement USA “Re-Envisioning Retirement Security” conference.

Joining U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and an array of experts and leaders, Trumka took part in a conversation about the breakdown of the promise of retirement security and what we need to do to restore it.

Trumka called the retirement security crisis one that

threatens American workers with yet another painful consequence of the “you’re on your own” social and economic model of the last thirty years.

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