Tuesday, December 3
4:30 – 5:30 PM
Brown Lounge

Each year between 2024 and 2027, over 4.1 million Americans will turn 65.

That’s 11,200 per day, on average. Many lack sufficient assets for later life, and the Social
Security system faces unprecedented financial strain—posing major challenges to
today’s younger generations. Will it be there for them? What might benefits look like?
And what does the recent election mean for Social Security’s future? As retirement
security grows increasingly elusive for millions of Americans, what is needed to meet
this moment?

On December 3, Jason Fichtner—former Chief Economist of the Social Security
Administration and now Chief Economist at the Bipartisan Policy Center—will discuss
retirement security policy, sharing innovative ideas to ensure Social Security’s viability
through a reinvigorated system for financial security in later life.

Ray Boshara, Senior Policy Advisor at the Center for Social Development, will moderate
this special in-person exchange with two noted respondents: Elizabeth Pippert Larson,
the Associate Director of Research and Administration at the Weidenbaum Center on the
Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University, and Nancy Morrow-
Howell, the Betty Bofinger Brown Distinguished Professor of Social Policy in the Brown
School, Co-Director of the Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging, and Faculty Director
with the Center for Social Development. A reception will follow.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Social Development, Brown School Dean’s Office, Clark-Fox Policy Institute, Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging at Washington University, Weidenbaum Center On the Economy, Government, and Public Policy,
Department of Political Science, and Department of Sociology.