21st Century Challenges: Key Areas for Oversight

This is a Comptroller General Presentation delivered to the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement, on December 7, 2006, in Washington, D.C. Major topics of this presentation include: (1) estimated fiscal exposures, (2) composition of spending as a share of the GDP, (3) Social Security representing an important source of income for women, (4) increased responsibility and risk for employees in defined contribution plans, and (5) impact on life events on financial security.