HELP Panel Schedules Retirement Savings Hearing

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee scheduled a hearing for Thursday to discuss “what can be done to help Americans save more for retirement.”

The 2 p.m. session is entitled “Simplifying Security: Encouraging Better Retirement Decisions.” 

Scheduled witnesses include:

  • Jean Chatzky, financial journalist, author, and financial editor for NBC’s Today Show
  • Lori Lucas, Executive Member of the Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association
  • Julie Agnew, Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at William and Mary Mason School of Business
  • Jeffrey R. Brown, William G. Karnes Professor of Finance at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Business

All hearings and markups are webcast live at: http://help.senate.gov.  Testimony and archived videos will be posted at: http://help.senate.gov/hearings/.

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