Two things the senate can do right now to save Social Security

Are you taking care of a family member who is old enough to receive Social Security? Help researchers at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis understand how taking care of older family members affects your decisions around retirement and social security claiming. @jessforden.bsky.social

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Social Security is America’s largest & most effective antipoverty program. I've started a new Policy Note series that might be a good fit for your series tinyurl.com/mpdpt569

This is the first policy note in SCEPA's series, "Tracking the Retirement Crisis"

Urgent actions needed to strengthen the Social Security’s capacity before irreversible damage occurs:
1. REVERSE LAYOFFS
2. CANCEL OFFICE CLOSURES
3. BUILD TRUST AND FUND THE SYSTEM tinyurl.com/4v3mch58

"As long as there is a labor market to build up and a retirement system to rescue, we can't stop." It was an inspiring and beautiful day of presentations by former students at our 'Reimagining Work, Wealth, and Aging' conference at The New School @thenewschool.bsky.social

PhD student and SCEPA Fellow, Jess Forden @jessforden.bsky.social presents "Who Pays for Elder Care? An Analysis of the Burden on Caregivers and Families"

In her presentation, PhD economist Melissa Mahoney shared that abortion bans shape economic decisions, not by mandating parenthood, but by making other options harder. Abortion bans are about power and about who has economic choices. They are about shaping women's economic futures.

In her presentation, "Job Displacement Effects on Labor Market Outcomes: Age-Based Analysis" PhD Economist Aida Farmand shared data showing that exiting the labor force is not a choice for many older workers. Working longer is not a solution for everyone.

"We both know that we have to build community and power in order to get justice for the [working class] families that we came from" says Teresa Ghilarducci during a roundtable conversation with Heather Boushey @hboushey.bsky.social

Michelle Holder, Professor of Economics, John Jay College presents "Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market" and details the wage gap that exists in relation to gender and to race. The double-wage gap that black women face has implications not only personally, but on their families and communities.

Economist Ismael Cid Martinez presents "The role of child poverty and structural racism in policy debates about generational equity" and reminds us that one in five children in America struggle to survive. "Poverty is actually a police choice"

In his presentation, "More than correct: Bringing political
economy to D.C public policy and beyond" PhD economist Kyle Moore shares that the current moment "is built for the political economic perspective."

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