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A retirement crisis looms as the labor market becomes less friendly to older workers when they are most numerous and least able to retire.
The stratification economics framework may best clarify the causes of racial health disparities and help to develop policy solutions.
Policy makers need to strengthen older workers’ fallback positions.
A realistic look at the disempowered status of America’s older workers and their rocky path to a secure retirement.
Brief— Workers at all earnings levels would benefit from expanding Social Security. SCEPA proposes defaulting workers into “Catch-Up” contributions, where— starting at age 50— they would contribute an additional 3.1% of their salary. 
Adding green bonds to current carbon taxes is the most effective strategy to achieve global environmental goals, according to research by SCEPA economist Willi Semmler and economists at the Economics Research Institute in Berlin (DIW).
Brief— Social Security benefits are progressive and reduce the unequal distribution of retirement wealth generated by a broken employer-based retirement system.
SCEPA economists published a World Bank working paper arguing that both the carbon tax and green bonds are needed to mitigate climate change while sharing the cost across generations.
