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Guaranteed Retirement Accounts: Everything You Need to Know
Guaranteed Retirement Accounts (GRAs) are universal, affordable, and portable accounts that provide workers with a monthly paycheck in retirement that lasts the rest of their lives.
In a first-of-its-kind analysis, ReLab’s latest policy note reveals sharp inequalities in retirement wealth.
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.
SCEPA Director Teresa Ghilarducci was named to Next Avenue’s 2016 list of Influencers in Aging for her work to reform the retirement system with Guaranteed Retirement Accounts.
Guaranteed Retirement Accounts would supplement an expanded Social Security.
SCEPA Director Teresa Ghilarducci was named to Philadelphia’s Task Force on Retirement Security for Private Sector Employees.
Aleksandr Gevorkyan, assistant professor of economics at St. John’s University, and Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, New School economics student, published an article in the Review of Development Economics.
The United Nation’s 2016 Paris Agreement, negotiated by 195 countries, creates a framework for keeping global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees celsius. The next task is determining how to pay for it in a fair way.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is ramping up its collaboration with climate change experts in the academic community.
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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.
