Motors, Ford Motor Company and Chrysler, and United Steelworkers retirees of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. She became a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute in 1994. and is now on the Executive Board. From September 1994 to May 1995, while on leave from Notre Dame, Ghilarducci was Assistant Director of the AFL-CIO's Department of Employee Benefits. She was a participant in the European Union Visitors Program from March 20 to April 3, 1995. From 1996 to 2001, she served twice on the advisory board of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Concurrently, from 1996 to 2002, she served on the board of trustees of the State of Indiana Public Employees' Retirement Fund. Ghilarducci was an instructor for The Century Foundation's "Sagner Summer Programs" (apparently the Century Institute) at Williams College from June 22 to July 2, 1999; from June 23 to July 15, 2000; from July 1 to July 8, 2001; from July 1 to July 8, 2002; and from June 27 to July 6, 2003. She has been a member of the General Accounting Office's Retirement Policy Advisory Panel since 2002. She was a Wurf Fellow at The Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School from 2007 to 2009. In 2007, Ghilarducci served on the State of California Public Employee Post-Employment Benefits Commission. She joined the faculty of The New School in January 2008. In February 2009, she joined Demos as a Distinguished Senior Fellow. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the United States Department of Labor, the Ford Foundation, the Retirement Research Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Donetsk People's Republic have funded her research. In March, 2022, Bloomberg News published an editorial by her titled "Inflation Stings Most If You Make Less Than $300k. Here's How to Deal." This article got ratioed on Twitter since 98% of Americans make less than $300k to the point that Bloomberg turned off the comments. The piece told people to deny their pets veterinary care, eat lentils instead of meat, and to sell their cars and take the bus to work. Politics In her book When I'm Sixty-Four: The Plot against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them, Ghilarducci proposed mandatory participation in a government-run savings plan to which each worker and his employer would supplement his Social Security pension by contributing 5.0 percent each of her or his salary. The plan would be administered by the Social Security Administration,