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Older Workers and Retirement Chartbook

Older Workers and Retirement Chartbook

Links the Labor Market Challenges Facing Older Workers & Retirement Insecurity

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America Needs an Older Workers' Bureau

America Needs an Older Workers' Bureau

An Older Workers' Bureau within the U.S. Department of Labor would focus on older workers, an increasingly large and often vulnerable population that current research, data, and policies don’t address.

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Climate Change & the Challenges to Labor

Climate Change & the Challenges to Labor

“On a dead planet, there are no jobs." Labor leader Reiner Hoffmann, who represents over 6 million workers in Germany, succinctly summarized why we came together to discuss the intersection of climate change and labor.

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The Costs Behind NYC's Hudson Yards Project

The Costs Behind NYC's Hudson Yards Project

SCEPA's research exposed the $2.2 billion in costs behind the so-called "self-financed" project. Check out the extensive news coverage.
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Green Bonds for the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

Green Bonds for the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

The green bond market is emerging as an impactful financing mechanism in climate change mitigation efforts.

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SCEPA works to focus the public economics debate on the role government can and should play in the real productive economy - that of business, management, and labor - to raise living standards, create economic security, and attain full employment.

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Retirement Equity Lab (ReLab)

Older Workers Claim Social Security While Working, Upending Beliefs About Raising the Retirement Age

Policy Note | Challenging the widespread assumption that people claim their retirement benefits only when they retire, more than one-fifth of older workers in the United States start claiming Social Security benefits as soon as they are eligible, even while working for pay. Low-income older workers are more than three times as likely as high-income workers to claim early, indicating a reliance on Social Security payments to supplement low wages. Those who claim before the full retirement age (also known as the Normal Retirement Age) will receive reduced benefits throughout their lives, leaving them financially vulnerable once they stop working. Because so many older workers collect reduced Social Security benefits, raising the retirement age will have little effect on getting people to work longer and will simply reduce benefits further. Instead, reforms should focus on policies like creating an Older Workers Bureau to support work at older ages, and bolstering Social Security benefits for those who risk falling into poverty in retirement.

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Physically Demanding Jobs and Involuntary Retirement Worsen Retirement Insecurity

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    The Real Driver of Rising Inequality

    Wage suppression - not monopoly power - is fueling corporate profits and the growing gap between rich and poor.
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  • Economics of Climate Change

    Sustainable Macroeconomics, Climate Risks, and Energy Transitions

    Book | This book explores the myriad challenges of climate change and in reaching a low-carbon economy. It develops a framework for dynamic macroeconomic modeling for the climate-economy interaction, presents empirical trends in carbon-emitting resource use, and discusses policy strategies…
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