Lessons from the financial crisis for retirement security: Building better retirement plans, testimony before the u.s. house of representatives committee on education and labor, " the impact of the financial crisis on workers' retirement security," october 7, 2008

Thank you Chairman Miller, Ranking Member McKeon, and members of the House Committee on Education and Labor for this opportunity to speak to you today. My name is Christian Weller. I am an associate professor of public policy in the McCormack Graduate School at the University of Massachusetts Boston, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund in Washington, D.C., and an Institute Fellow at the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston. As my affiliations show, I have substantial expertise and experience working on retirement security issues both in a research and policy context.