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The Cost of Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project
SCEPA's working paper on the costs of the city's Hudson Yards project was featured in the New York Times, New York 1, Gothamist, New York Magazine's Intelligencer, CityLab, the Guardian, and a New York Post editorial, among others. The article below was featured in Urban Matters, a publication of the Center for New York City Affairs.
In a first-of-its-kind analysis, ReLab’s latest policy note reveals sharp inequalities in retirement wealth.
Due to lack of coverage and a systemic reliance on defined contribution plans, workers do not have enough saved for retirement.
Economist Willi Semmler, director of SCEPA’s Economics of Climate Change project, gave a presentation in Sorbonne, Paris, as part of the Financial Regulation Lab (LabEx ReFi).
ReLab's new report, "40% of Older Workers and Their Spouses Will Experience Downward Mobility in Retirement," finds that inadequate retirement accounts will cause 8.5 million middle-class older workers and their spouses to be downwardly mobile in retirement, falling into poverty or near poverty in their old age.
President Trump‘s record-long State of the Union address offered two short points relevant to ordinary people‘s finances, including retirement accounts and after-tax income.
SCEPA Director and economist Teresa Ghilarducci and Blackstone President Hamilton “Tony” James published the second edition of their co-authored book, Rescuing Retirement: A Plan to Guarantee Retirement Security for All Americans, from Colombia University Press.
For a woman, being an economist in academia is not unlike any other workplace.
Willi Semmler, who leads SCEPA's Economics of Climate Change project, and a diverse team of researchers received a competitive grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC).
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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.
