Log in Subscribe

Seeing Need, Mayor and Council Out To Establish Private Retirement Plan

By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 10/2/19

“Retirement should be for everybody, not just for people who work in offices here in Manhattan, and not just for people lucky enough to have a pension,” Onza Lynch, a Bronx commercial carter, said at a Sept. 23 rally to push legislation that would establish a universal retirement savings plan for private-sector employees across the city.

Mayor de Blasio, City Council Members I. Daneek Miller and Ben Kallos, and advocate groups including the American Association of Retired Persons spoke of the importance of retirement security at the City Hall event.

This item is available in full to subscribers.

Please log in to continue

Log in