How in the world might a transportation bill feed our retirement crisis? Congress is sneaking a harmful pension change that could lead to massive underfunding of our largest plans

The auto companies' defined-benefit pension plans are fundamentally unsound and may be bigger than the auto companies can pay, but are managed by government and involuntarily guaranteed by taxpayers.

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The 2005 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) annual report shows that its liabilities are $23 billion greater than its assets. With bad luck, experts believe that this could grow to $100 billion and a taxpayer bail...

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In August 2006, President George W. Bush signed the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA), legislation intended to improve the funding of defined-benefit pension plans, improve the measurement of assets and liabilities, and require plan sponsors to face stricter...

By protecting some individual pension beneficiaries, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation has become exposed to huge financial risks and has put all American taxpayers at risk.

Large deficits faced by the PBGC are a political challenge that Washington will be forced to fix.

The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committeepredicts whichitems will be on the Bush administration's agenda in the next four years and makes recommendations for action.

How can the future of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation be improved?