Links the Labor Market Challenges Facing Older Workers & Retirement Insecurity
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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.
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.
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.
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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Fearing A Commercial Real Estate 'Apocalypse'
Read MoreWith more people working remotely, commercial real estate is facing an increasingly dire situation and some real estate professionals say the market is being sharply divided "into haves and have-nots."
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Retirement Equity Lab (ReLab)
A Universal Retirement Plan can Reduce Inequality and Prevent Downward Mobility
Policy Note | Up to 40 percent of middle-income workers are at risk of downward mobility into poverty or near-poverty in retirement because of an inefficient retirement system that disproportionately benefits those with high incomes. Universal retirement accounts and providing workers with more equitable and better targeted tax incentives are among the best methods to supplement Social Security and prevent downward mobility in retirement.
Climate Change
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Sustainability
The Real Driver of Rising Inequality
Wage suppression - not monopoly power - is fueling corporate profits and the growing gap between rich and poor.Read More
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Economics of Climate Change
Optimal Control of a Global Model of Climate Change
The economy-climate interaction and an appropriate mitigation policy for climate protection have been treated in various types of scientific modeling. This paper focuses on the seminal work by Nordhaus on the economy-climate link and extends that model to include optimal policies…Read More
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