Samuel Carter joined the Institute for Public Knowledge as Assistant Director in December 2007. Prior to this, Mr. Carter worked as Program Coordinator for the President's Office of the Social Science Research Council, where he helped to develop several projects, including two books for the Privatization of Risk Series with Columbia University Press. Mr. Carter has served as a Researcher for Vice President Joe Biden, as well as for democratic political consultant Robert Shrum. Mr. Carter holds an MPA in Public and Nonprofit Policy Analysis and Management from NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School for Public Service, where he received the Sterling D. Spero Prize for Exceptional Written Work for his analysis of workforce housing policy options for the City of Miami's Office of the Mayor.
Mr. Carter also serves as co-founder and press secretary of Holla Back NYC, a blog leading the grassroots campaign to end street harassment, as well as publisher of Overflow Magazine, a South Brooklyn arts and culture quarterly.
New York Daily News OP/ED
As Social Security, workplace pensions, and individual retirement accounts become more insecure, America's pension system is in serious need of rehabilitation. In this timely volume, Mitchell A. Orenstein and his distinguished colleagues Gary Burtless, Teresa Ghilarducci, and Alicia Munnell argue that any reform of the U.S. pension system must address both future imbalances in the Social Security program and weaknesses in the workplace and individual retirement systems on which a growing number of Americans now rely. Weighing what is gained against what is lost as new proposals surface, this book offers a clear account and reasoned analysis of the looming crisis, as well as our collective alternatives both domestically and abroad.