What is needed now to heal a deeply divided America is for President Joe Biden to build a sense of social solidarity. There is an opportunity to create new economic policies for a healthier America and a social compact in which we can all value...
Changes in Social Security taxes and benefits that took effect Jan. 1, 2021...
Social Security benefits play a vital role in reducing poverty in every state, and they lift more Americans above the poverty line than any other program....
Non-white and Hispanic Americans under age 65 are dying in greater numbers than white people in that age group....
Due to persistent racial differences in wealth, poverty, employment, housing, health status, access to health care, and other factors, Black and other non-white communities have faced significantly worse economic and health effects related to the coronavirus than white communities....
This data brief explores the impacts of the 2008 market collapse on the financial status of minority older adults age 60 and over....
Jacqueline L. Angel and Juan Fernando Torres-Gil, For the Inquirer Changing demographics are redefining America in important ways, and with the elections around the corner, Republican and Democratic candidates would be wise to pay particularly close attention to older adults. By 2050, the United States will be...
By Elizabeth Bauer Since the release of the most recent Social Security Trustees' Report in June 2018, there's been a recognition that 2034 will be here before we know it, and that, subsequent to the depletion of the Trust Fund, when benefits are cut by a quarter, we'll...
By Alexandra Olson NEW YORK (AP) — Carlos Garcia was three years into his first job in technology at Merrill Lynch when he first learned what a 401K retirement savings account was. He was floored when he learned that a colleague had already saved $30,000 in...
"As the twin demographic shifts of population aging and diversity speed forward in America, it is hard to imagine a timelier or more needed work." - Paul Irving, Chairman, Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging This timely and critical book takes on a new phenomenon...