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12/20/2023

SCEPA's latest research report by Drystan Phillips sheds light on a critical issue: the hidden and persistent unemployment among older workers. Using an inclusive measure of unemployment, the report reveals that there are three million more unemployed workers than official tallies indicate—one in five of whom are over the age of 55. Read a summary of the research here: https://economicpolicyresearch.org/insights-blog/uncovering-the-struggles-of-older-workers-in-the-labor-market

12/18/2023

"Never ever ever will Social Security be eliminated", SCEPA Director Teresa Ghilarducci told Yahoo Finance recently; "the political and economic case for the program have never been stronger".

Read more about here comments in our latest blog :

"Never ever ever will Social Security be eliminated", SCEPA Director Teresa Ghilarducci told Yahoo Finance recently, "the political and economic case for the program have never been stronger". Surya Kolluri, the head of the TIAA Institute, underscored that point by noting the many ri...

12/07/2023

If you missed Atlanta Fed President Dr. Raphael Bostic's excellent lecture on work & wealth inequality, we've got you covered with our new blog about the lecture + our latest wealth research from
Teresa Ghilarducci, Siavash Radpour, and Jessica Forden. Read it here:

Schwartz Lecture by Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic Provokes Rich Dialogue | In these times of broadening precarity, how can Americans build wealth, economic mobility, and security as they grow older? What can policymakers do to give financially fragile aging Americans a fighting chance, and bu...

12/06/2023

More than eight million elder Americans who have difficulty with tasks like getting dressed, using the toilet, or preparing meals do not receive any help, per our new policy note by Jessisca Forden
and Teresa Ghilarducci. Read about the report here:

Policy Note | America’s eldercare system relies on families to provide care to aging adults, leaving those without family or wealth particularly vulnerable to having their care needs go unmet. 8.3 million people, or 42 percent of adults who have difficulty with tasks like getting dressed, using th...

04/29/2022

SCEPA's Director Teresa Ghilarducci spoke with Research Associate Owen Davis about his research on what's been happening to older works these past few years-- take a look at their conversation Forbes:

Roughly 1.3 million more people age 55 and older are retired today than we would expect absent the pandemic.

04/28/2022

On the NYC Mayors' first budget, in a new Forbes column, Senior Fellow Rick McGahey says Adams is doing a careful balancing act with this budget, but big issues facing the city’s future-crime, housing, and the office economy-aren’t easily addressed through spending.
Read more:

Mayor Eric Adams has presented a relatively modest budget. But the city's biggest problems aren't spending or taxation, and the Mayor and the city will need luck to overcome them.

04/12/2022

On April 22 at 5pm join SCEPA's Climate Change project for a virtual performance of the Steel Miller's Daughter, adapted for the era of climate change. An interdisciplinary panel of artists and academics will follow the performance. For more info & to RSVP:

Stephen Kennedy Murphy’s modern adaptation of Franz Schubert’s The Millers Daughter is a one-hour series of video vignettes that reimagine the classic musical story through the lens of global warming and climate disasters. The story follows a steel worker's pursuit of his boss' "green-movement" ...

04/08/2022

One reason for this big gap in healthy retirement is the pressure for American elders to work longer, says Teresa Ghilarducci in Forbes. Among major rich nations, Americans work longer than anyone except the Japanese, who retire at age 67.9 while Americans work until age 65 on average; but the Japanese live longer, so experience more healthy retirement time. Read the full article here:

It's sad to know that the American de facto plan for retirement is working longer and dying sooner.

03/31/2022

SCEPA just published new data showing that most of the excess pandemic retirements occurred after experiencing job loss. In fact, fewer people retired from employment than in the same period before the pandemic—countering the narrative that older workers took part in the great resignation.

See our full findings here:

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03/08/2022

Great new paper from NSSR PhD candidates Andreas Lichtenberger and Joao Paulo Braga & Willi Semmler, SCEPA's Director of Climate Economics, finds that green bond investment can protect investors and portfolios from oil price and business cycle fluctuations, and stabilize portfolio returns and volatility.

Read it here: https://www.economicpolicyresearch.org/resource-library/research/green-bonds-for-the-transition-to-a-low-carbon-economy

01/19/2022

UCSF just launched a great new project called the Emancipatory Sciences Lab-- it aims to highlight the work of scholars and practitioners who advance the rights of marginalized people and subjugated discourses by interrogating power structures, building knowledges of anti-oppression, and encouraging activist-scholar approaches to research, policy, and practice. Check them out!

01/10/2022

Pay transparency is an important measure in addressing wage gaps. "If there are no secrets, then every worker has a lot more bargaining power" says SCEPA's Teresa Ghilarducci

Pay transparency bills have recently passed throughout the country.