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Policymakers must maintain adequate funding rules for defined-benefit pension plans.

Employers should be required to keep plan participants informed adequately and in a timely manner about the state of plan funding.

The Department of Labor must stringently enforce fiduciary rules to ensure that pensions are handled prudently and in the best interest of plan participants and beneficiarie

Public retirement systems should establish a maximum vesting period of five years for DB plans and one year for employers’ matching contributions to defined contribution or hybrid plans. 

States and localities should move toward full funding of their retirement systems. 

Minimum distribution requirements for retirement savings should periodically be examined to reflect changes in life expectancy and income needs at older ages while ensuring the collection of deferr

Federal policymakers should develop a comprehensive system for financing Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) that includes a new social insurance program to provide a basic level of LTSS.

Ideally, the federal government should finance LTSS through a universal, comprehensive, and publicly administered program such as Medicare or similar social insurance program of shared risk. 

Federal agencies that oversee food labeling and advertising should adopt consistent standards and definitions for terms and claims that appear on food labe

Food labels should be written in clear, plain, understandable language and printed in legible type size, font, and color. Labels i