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Gerontology Lecture Series Begins in September
Timothy Smeeding, director of the Center for
Policy Research at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship
and Public Affairs, will offer his views on the social security
system in a Tuesday, September 15, talk at Ithaca College.
 Sponsored
by the Ithaca College Gerontology Institute as part of its Distinguished
Speaker Series, Smeeding's talk, "Improving Social Security:
An Upgrade or a Trade-In?," is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in
the Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall. It is free and open to the
public.
In addition to his duties at the Center for
Policy Research, Smeeding is director of the Luxembourg Income
Study project, which he founded in 1983. Previously, Smeeding
taught at Vanderbilt University, where he was director of the
Center for the Study of Families, Children, and Elderly. He has
served on the board of directors of the National Academy on Aging
and as head of the Economics of Aging Interest Group of the Gerontology
Society of America. A former member of the federal SSI Modernization
Project, Smeeding is currently a member of the Older Women's
Task Force for the GSA and is working on a project concerning
the impact of social security reform on older women. Smeeding
has written extensively on the economics of aging and health
care finance and has also published views on the comparative
aspects of the economics of retirement. |
