The Great Debate: Social Security Reform, What’s at Stake for Latinos

Date:	Apr 13, 2005
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Topic:	Community and Family Wealth-Building
Policy:	Social Security Reform
Region:	DC

Summary

The transcript is a summary of the session, The Great Debate: Social Security Reform, What’s at Stake for Latinos, from the 2004 NCLR Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. The session’s panelists – Rep. Christopher Cannon (R-UT), Rep. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), as well as Peter Orszag of the Brookings Institution, and José Piñera of the Cato Institute – addressed how Social Security benefits Latinos, how it currently fails to include many Latino workers, and how it can be improved to meet the specific needs of the Latino community.