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....
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...
Programs that employees must pay into have replaced those traditional, employer-funded pensions. Savings are bleak; almost half of American families have no money set aside for retirement For many elderly people—especially those who are low-income—the Social Security check is the only way to make ends...
A 2009 AARP study says Hispanics could account for nearly a quarter of the population ages 50-64 by the year 2050. The 2.7 million immigrants, mostly farmworkers, who gained amnesty when President Ronald Reagan signed the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, are rapidly aging...
A couple who are both age 60 and who purchase new long-term care insurance coverage can expect to pay between 6 and 9 percent more compared to a year ago according to the 2017 Long Term Care Insurance Price Index, an annual report from the...