Pension Plans in Peril

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Find out why pension plans are often the first to go when a company is facing a major financial struggle, and how that’s affecting people around the country who rely on those pensions to pay for their retirement. Journalist Fran Hawthorne has been covering the pension industry for more than 20 years, and her recent book is Pension Dumping.

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