To us here in the US, Happy Almost 🦃Thanksgiving! … and a thank you note from us to you. Let us give you a little break between email and making your friends-and-family plans to catch up on the world of retirement security. It’s cold here – grab your pumpkin spice and nestle in:

• Leaning into Latinx – we can do better – what we learned in the great PR

• We have fresh State Auto IRA metrics

• Key updates from California, Delaware, Maine, New Mexico, and Oregon

• Joel Metlen invites you to think about social determinants of health and well being

• We keep your brain spicy with Hot Sauce, Cool Stuff

• PIX of the week! – some sunshine and a soliloquy from a 500-year-old town

Public policy tends to hyper focus on specific areas of people’s lives - whether health, economic stability, housing, etc. - as if each aspect of our lives exists in a vacuum separate from everything else. People need a lot of different needs met all at the same time in order for them to succeed and thrive. Public policy is starting to recognize the importance of those interdependencies and how they collectively contribute to people’s well-being, and that creates new opportunities for partnership and collaboration across public and private sectors.

If your world is Latinx workforce development, the retirement security of the communities you work with is probably just a glimmer on the radar of all the efforts you must juggle every day. And so the workforce community provides a good gauge by which to measure how effective communication about retirement security and savings opportunities has been. Join us, UnidosUS, and the Hon. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend in Puerto Rico for these highlights.