Guest Op-Ed: Don't throw retirees to the wolves of Wall Street

For 50 years, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 has provided a safety net that protects older Americans' pensions from corporate and financial predators. Such protections would have been a lifeline for my family in the early 1960 s, when the Philadelphia- based leatherworks company where both my mother and father worked for over 20 years…