The Urban Institute will host a forum to examine how factors such as disappearing employer-sponsored pensions, rising health care costs and potential Social Security cutbacks will affect baby boomers, particularly women, as they retire. Panelists include Barbara Bovbjerg, managing director for education, workforce and income security issues at the Government Accountability Office, Heidi Hartmann, president of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Richard Johnson, director of the Program on Retirement Policy at the Urban Institute, and Jack VanDerhei, research director at the Employee Benefit Research Institute. The event will be held from noon-1:30 P.M. EST at the Urban Institute.

The New America Foundation will host a discussion to explore the current state of economic mobility in America and what can and should be done to increase economic security and create opportunities for upward mobility. The forum will include featured speaker Scott Winship, fellow in economic studies at The Brookings Institution, Reid Cramer, director of the Asset Building Program at New America, Shawn Fremstad, attorney and senior research associate at the Center for Economic Policy Research, and Heather McGhee, director of the Washington Office at Dēmos. The event will be held from 12:15-1:30 P.M. EST at the New America Foundation.