RELAB POLICY NOTE | A growing pool of American older workers (age 55 and over) must continue working or seeking work because their retirement income is inadequate.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | A growing pool of American older workers (age 55 and over) must continue working or seeking work because their retirement income is inadequate.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | Over 5 million older Americans and adults with disabilities rely on Medicaid for long-term care services.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | Late Baby Boomers, Generation X and Millennials are retiring under worse conditions than Early Baby Boomers.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | This third report in the SCEPA Tracking the Retirement Crisis series shares insights from in-depth interviews conducted in April and May 2025.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | Retirement security in the United States is at a critical turning point. As the Baby Boomer generation ages, the nation now has more retirement-age individuals…

RELAB POLICY NOTE | In just eight weeks, the trust that Social Security has built over the past 90 years may have been completely undermined.

RELAB REPORT | In the ever-evolving U.S. labor market landscape, the plight of older workers often remains overlooked.

WORKING PAPER | New York City's Hudson Yards project includes heavily discounted property taxes for Hudson Yards developers.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | COVID-19 and the resulting recession has made older workers — especially older people of color and low-income seniors — even more vulnerable to the systemic flaws of our failed retirement system.

ARTICLE | From SCEPA economists studying the economic impacts of climate change and mitigation policies show green bonds have great potential to help countries across the world increase environmental investments and reach emission targets.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | Older workers are more likely than younger workers to think they can’t find a job comparable to their current one, a well-founded fear that persists at every earnings level and reflects the reality of an unfriendly labor market.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | Older workers have higher levels of financial fragility than in 2006, before the Great Recession.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | Over the past three decades, older workers’ wages declined and lagged behind younger workers’ wages.

ARTICLE | Workers in low-wage households are more likely to experience economic shocks and to withdraw from their retirement accounts, exacerbating pre-existing inequalities in the retirement savings system.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | Older workers experienced almost no real wage growth since 2007, despite record low unemployment rates

RELAB POLICY NOTE | Despite the low headline unemployment rate, changes in job tenure over the last 30 years have reduced older workers’ bargaining power, especially older men.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | American workers’ access to retirement savings coverage is getting worse. New data show that employer-provided retirement coverage for all workers dropped 4 percentage points between 2014 and 2017 to 40%.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today reporteda 2.8% unemployment rate for workers age 55 and older in October, which reflects no change from September.