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Harkin Coming To Spencer



Spencer, IA (KICD)--Senator Tom Harkin will visit Spencer this coming Thursday for an event focused on retirement security.

Harkin, as Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, recently released a new report examining the retirement crisis in America and laying out a bold proposal to rebuild the private pension system. The report comes after a series of HELP Committee hearings on retirement security that Harkin has convened over the last two years. He is hosting a series of events in Iowa intended to start a discussion about the retirement crisis in our country.

Harkin will visit the Spencer Area Activity Center Multipurpose room at 9:45 this coming Thursday, August 30th.

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