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Retirement IQ
What Americans Do and Don't Know about Retirement


Barbara Bovbjerg (pronounced Bo' berg) is the Director for Education, Workforce and Income Security Issues at the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The PowerPoint that you can download below was part of the presentation, "What Americans Do and Don't Know about Retirement" that she gave on May 24, 2006 for the "Retirement Issues in the 21st Century" National Press Foundation Fellows.


Biography
Barbara Bovbjerg is Director for Education, Workforce and Income Security Issues at the U.S. Government Accountability Office. In that capacity, she oversees evaluative studies on aging and retirement income policy issues, including Social Security and private pension programs, and operations and management at the Social Security Administration, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and the Employee Benefit Security Administration of the Department of Labor.

Previously Ms. Bovbjerg was Assistant Director for Budget Issues at GAO, where she managed a variety of budget policy projects, including studies on the long-term effects of budget deficits. Before joining GAO, she led the citywide analysis unit of the District of Columbia's Budget Office, and analyzed state and local government finance issues for the Urban Institute.

Ms. Bovbjerg holds a Masters Degree in Public Policy from Cornell University, and a B.A. from Oberlin College.

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