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Tom Harkin: “The USA Retirement Funds plan that Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) proposed in his July report entitled 'The Retirement Crisis…”

On the recordSeptember 19, 2012
The USA Retirement Funds plan that Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) proposed in his July report entitled 'The Retirement Crisis and a Plan to Solve It' builds upon the lessons we have learned from the weaknesses of the current retirement system and is a good place to start building a modern retirement system because it manages the cost, risk, and adequacy tradeoffs quite well.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin advocates for a new retirement plan to address current system weaknesses.

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