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Virginia Reno, Vice President for Income Security for NASI is quoted in a post by Mark Miller on the Reuters Deep Pocket blog.
In a story on a Pensions and Investments round table on the future of Social Security System, NASI members Nancy J. Altman, Dean Baker, and Virginia Reno, vice president for income security for NASI shared their thoughts on the urgency for changes to the system and just what the changes should be.
The testimony of NASI President Janice Gregory before the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform is cited in an article discussing the June 30, 2010 public hearing.
Citing NASI reports Tough Times Require Strong Social Security Benefits: Views on Social Security among African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and White, Americans and Fixing Social Security: Adequate Benefits, Adequate Financing, Wilhelmina Leigh of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, reflects on the 75th birthday of the Social Security program and its importance to all Americans in a article on The Root.
In his article "Take the Offensive Against Social Security Killers: Here's How" Saul Friedman, Columnist with Gray Matters, references NASI report, "A New Deal for Young Adults: Social Security Benefits for Post-Secondary School Students", in his relfections on actions that advocates of the Social Security program can take in the ongoing conversation on the status and future of the program.