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 POLICY NOTE | After a partial recovery between May and August, older workers’ labor force participation rate fell continuously, reaching its lowest point of the recession in January.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | Working longer is often proposed as the solution to the retirement crisis caused by older workers’ lack of retirement assets, but new research from SCEPA's ReLab shows this assumption doesn't match older workers' real experiences in the labor market.

RELAB REPORT | New research shows regardless of the data source, retirement plan participation is low and stagnating.

ARTICLE | How the European Union (EU) can recover its sense of common purpose after the Covid-19 crisis exacerbated division between and among member countries.

BOOK | In a forthcoming book about cities and inequality, SCEPA Senior Fellow Rick McGahey examines how economists think about cities, what they typically leave out, and what this tells us about the future for urban hubs such as New York City.

ARTICLE | SCEPA economists published research in an influential academic journal on the Keynesian multiplier, a hotly debated issue in progressive economics on the efficacy of fiscal policy and deficit spending in a recession.

WORKING PAPER | TIF’s self-financing rhetoric can be used to shift risk onto taxpayers.

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 | As the impacts of climate change – from wildfires to flooding – become impossible to ignore, calls to adapt our economy are joined by calls to remove and store existing carbon dioxide, a process known as carbon drawdown.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | Unemployment rates for workers 55 and older exceeded those of mid-career workers for the length of the pandemic — the first time since 1973 such an unemployment gap has persisted for six months or longer.

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.

WORKING PAPER | While tax increment financing (TIF) is a common tool for municipalities to fund economic development, it is responsive to the legal, political, and economic environments of the locality in which it is implemented. 

RELAB REPORT | New research shows that even before the COVID-19 recession, only 36% of workers ages 25-64 were participating in a retirement plan at work, a five percentage point decrease from five years prior.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | 2.9 million older workers left the labor force since March. These workers are at risk of having to retire involuntarily due to increased health risks coupled with decreased job prospects.

CHARTBOOK | ReLab's chartbook documenting retirement insecurity and the decline in older workers' bargaining power is a resource for workers, employers, media, policymakers, scholars, and the broader public to answer questions about the state of older working America and retirement income security.

RELAB WORKING PAPER | Contrary to the predictions of theoretical models, working longer does not significantly increase the share of older workers who are financially prepared for retirement.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | SCEPA's latest research finds that the COVID-19 recession worsens the inequality of job safety among older workers. 

REPORT | Tax increment financing (TIF) is a popular but controversial financial tool used by local governments to fund economic development.