SOCIAL SECURITY
& SOCIAL POLICY
Speech at the Chautauqua Institution:
The
Future of Social Security, August 3, 2005
Article in The Chautauquan Daily:
Apfel
to address evolution, shortfalls of Social Security, August 3, 2005
Testimony
to the House Ways and Means Committee on the future of Social Security,
May 12, 2005
Big Choices: The Future of Social Security
CHASP and the LBJ Presidential Library hosted a policy symposium, Big
Choices: The Future of Social Security, on April 21, 2005. The symposium,
third in a five-year series, addressed the issue of Social Security reform. The
program included presentations by Professor Kenneth Apfel, former U.S. Social
Security Commissioner, John Rother, Director of Policy and Strategy for AARP,
Barbara Kennelly, Director of the National Committee to Preserve Social
Security and Medicare, and other national representatives from the Heritage
Foundation and the International Social Security Association. The symposium
also featured intergenerational discussion groups with students, Social
Security beneficiaries, and health professionals.
Apfel Chapters from Forthcoming Book Big Choices: The Future of Social Security
Chapter 7- Background
Article in Alcalde magazine:
Seeing
the Future, Alcalde, May/June 2005
Article on LBJ School of Public Affairs website:
Kenneth
Apfel Crusades for Social Security, LBJ School of Public Affairs, February
15, 2005
Op-Ed in Baltimore Sun:
Unneccesary and Unwise, Baltimore Sun, February 7, 2005
Op-Ed in Austin American-Statesman:
On
Social Security, let's cool the talk of a 'crisis', Austin
American-Statesman, February 2, 2005
Statement
to the Senate Democratic Policy Committee on Social Security Privatization,
January 28, 2005
Statement
to the National Press Club on Social Security Privatization, January
14, 2005
Article on the University of Texas website:
Will
Social Security Enter The Race?, University of Texas at Austin "Think
Democracy" Series, July 12, 2004
Statement to Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) Conference:
"Transforming
Dis[ABILITY] into ABILITY," Vienna, Austria, March 5, 2003
Article in American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
publication:
One
on One with Kenneth Apfel, Public Employee, November/December 2002
Address to IZA Conference on Pension Reform and Labor Markets:
"Strengthening
Social Security for the New Millenium," Berlin, Germany, May 21, 2001
Op-Ed in Washington Post:
Social
Security Stand-Off, Washington Post, April 11, 2001
Book excerpt from Social Security and Medicare by Sheila Burke, et.
al.:
Creating
a Solid Framework for Retirement Security
Social Security Administration Oral History:
Interview with
Former Commissioner Kenneth S. Apfel, Baltimore, Maryland, November 17,
2000
Address to National Academy of Public Administration Annual Conference:
"Charting
the Course in a Time of Transformation at Social Security," National
Press Club, Washington, DC, November 15, 2000
Address
to Symposium on Retirement Age and Disability, Washington, DC,
September 22, 2000
Address to National Academy of Social Insurance:
"National
Dialogue on SSI Childhood Disability," National Press Club,
Washington, DC, March 9, 2000
Testimony to U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social
Security:
"Return
to Work Initiatives for People with Disabilities," Washington, DC,
March 11, 1999