ISSUE BRIEF | Past research revealed 50 percent or more Americans are economically insecure, struggling to meet basic needs or plan for the future.

PRESENTATION | In a presentation to the Pajara Valley Saves Lives Coalition, SCEPA Director Teresa Ghilarducci describes how Covid-19 is accelerating gaps in race, income and gender inequality and has created new ones in employment, education, and life expectancy.

RELAB ARTICLE | A retirement crisis looms as the labor market becomes less friendly to older workers when they are most numerous and least able to retire.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | Social Security benefits are progressive and reduce the unequal distribution of retirement wealth generated by a broken employer-based retirement systemSocial Security benefits are progressive and reduce the unequal distribution of retirement wealth generated by a broken employer-based retirement system.

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.

VIDEO | The result of a failed retirement savings system, according to retirement expert and economist Teresa Ghilarducci in an interview with INET.

RELAB WORKING PAPER | This paper supports the need to focus not only on ensuring Social Security’s solvency for future generations, but building the program’s ability to support all working Americans.

WORKING PAPER | The Cambridge UK vs USA capital theory debates of the 1960s showed that the workhorse mainstream growth model relies on unsustainable assumptions.

WORKING PAPER | Authors use demand-driven models of economic growth and inequality to conclude US household wealth concentration is not likely to decline in response to fiscal interventions alone.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | This policy note shows how the current system of tax deferral for retirement contributions contributes to wealth inequality.

WORKING PAPER | The U.S. national income and product accounts are restated in the form of a social accounting matrix or SAM.

WORKING PAPER | In the United States, there is ongoing debate about how people of different income levels will be affected by policy decisions.

POLICY NOTE | GDP per capita and the Human Development Index are known measures of development, but are averages and thus conceal wide disparities in the overall population.

WORKING PAPER | Unemployment and employment rates are the conventional indicators used to measure economic and labor market performance.

WORKING PAPER | There are well-known problems with traditional approaches to measuring well-being and the authors introduce a simple alternative.