New America Foundation

March 2007

In addition to the Asset Building program, New America also hosts a retirement security program, headed up by Michael Calabrese and Maya MacGuineas. New America?s Retirement Security program studies, designs, and advocates reforms to expand pension coverage, particularly for lower-income workers, with the goal of creating a universal and completely portable system of saving accounts that benefits employees and employers alike. The program also researches and proposes new ways to update Social Security through reforms designed to increase retirement flexibility, boost national saving, and enhance retirement security for all workers.