Don't Miss: Gramlich, economic experts to discuss Social Security reform

Updated 4:00 PM September 28, 2005

Don't Miss: Gramlich, economic experts to discuss Social Security reform

The panel discussion "Debating Social Security Reform" will feature Interim Provost Edward Gramlich as keynote speaker. The event is 2-5 p.m. Sept. 29 in the Founders Room of the Alumni Center.

Gramlich was chair of the Quadrennial Advisory Council on Social Security from 1994-96, and served from 1997-2005 on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

Other panelists are: Henry Aaron, senior fellow of economic studies, the Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Chair at the Brookings Institution, and chair of the 1979 Advisory Commission on Social Security; Olivia Mitchell, director of the Boettner Center for Pension and Retirement Research at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a member of President Bush's Commission for Strengthening Social Security; and Robert Willis, professor of economics and director of the Health and Retirement Survey at the U-M Institute for Social Research.

Darren Lubotsky, visiting professor of public policy at U-M, and a faculty member at the University of Illinois, will moderate the panel, which is sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and National Poverty Center.

Don't Miss: Gramlich, economic experts to discuss Social Security reform

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