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Who Does the Earned Income Tax Credit Benefit?
Working Paper—The popular EITC program is credited with encouraging employment and reducing poverty. But a SCEPA working paper suggests it may also reduce wages for low-education workers, including older workers who do not receive EITC benefits at the same rate as younger workers.
Kyle Moore starts a new job on Capitol Hill next week. He’ll be joining the Democratic staff of the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) as a Senior Policy Analyst.
Reset Retirement, a new podcast from our Retirement Equity Lab, tells the real stories of retirement.
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.
New York City's Hudson Yards project includes heavily discounted property taxes for Hudson Yards developers.
The rates of elder poverty among widows and single women are higher than among couples and men.
ReLab's new report, "Disparities & Erosion in New York’s Workplace Retirement Coverage," documents two trends in retirement plan coverage: 1) retirement plan coverage is declining for all New Yorkers, and 2) disparities in coverage continue to exist based on race, education and income.
