Social Security Is a Progressive System. Can We Make it More Progressive? Yes. Should We? Definitely Yes.

Ann F. Baum Memorial Elder Law Lecture

"Social Security Is a Progressive System. Can We Make it More Progressive? Yes. Should We? Definitely Yes."

Presented by Neil H. Buchanan
Senior Research Fellow
Vienna University of Economics and Business

Free and open to the public, with a limited number of lunches available for attendees.

About the Speaker

Neil H. Buchanan, an economist and legal scholar, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien). He is also the James J. Freeland Eminent Chair in Taxation and Professor of Law emeritus at the University of Florida. He is an internationally recognized scholar who speaks frequently at universities around the world and has published widely in both academic journals and major newspapers and magazines. His core areas of research are tax policy, intergenerational justice, retirement security, critical perspectives on economics as applied to law, and the future of democracy in the US and the world. He has taught economics at Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Michigan, and elsewhere; and he has taught law at the University of Toronto, Osgoode Hall Law School, The George Washington University, New York University, and Rutgers University. He holds a JD and two PhD’s (one in economics, one in laws).

About the Ann F. Baum Memorial Elder Law Lecture 

In remembrance of the life of Mrs. Ann F. Baum, a gift through her estate has endowed the Ann F. Baum Memorial Elder Law Lecture. This lecture series seeks to promote the relevant and timely discussion of broad range of issues relating to the intersection of public policy, the law, and the elderly. 

Mrs. Baum was born November 11, 1922, into a poor Irish Catholic family. A life-long resident of the Chicago area, Mrs. Baum grew up with seven siblings. She and her husband, the late Alvin H. Baum, operated an investment firm in Chicago. Mr. Baum passed away in 1982, and Mrs. Baum passed away in 2005.

Mrs. Baum and her late husband were compassionate individuals who supported a broad array of charities as well as providing direct support to needy individuals. Targets of their giving included the disadvantaged, the young, the elderly, religious organizations, educational organizations, and civic organizations. Their legacy of giving and sharing is continued through the Alvin H. Baum Family Fund of which Alvin and Ann were both benefactors. 

The Ann F. Baum Memorial Elder Law Lecture constitutes a fitting memorial to a woman who was deeply concerned with the rights and issues pertaining to elderly people in our society.