Middle-aged workers need portable pensions and health insurance so they can move and take risks.

President Clinton has repeatedly called for "portable pensions" that would accompany workers through layoffs or job-switches.

"We have to drive fear out of the workplace with necessary benefits - portable pensions, health care and money for retraining and education."

And she lists such ideas as job training, portable pensions and temporary work to ease the transition from one job to the next.

Retraining programs, improved education and portable pensions were among Mr. Zoellick's proposed solutions.

Senator Dave Durenberger has a new group, Americans for Generational Equity, and they're interested in portable personal pensions.

Feighan is a particular fan of portable pensions.

That's how they'll introduce me at my retirement party from the United States Senate in the year 2020," he says, "as the father of the portable personal pension.

Commissioner, I should like to ask you how long it will be before the generation of Europeans that work where work exists can have portable pensions?

Some of the companies I worked for did not provide any pensions, and certainly not portable pensions.