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Teresa Ghilarducci @tghilarducci.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

For many Americans, “retirement” accounts aren’t for retirement -- they’re emergency lifelines. Evidence shows workers are draining 401(k)s to cover basic needs, sacrificing future security. We need retirement reform. @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/teresa...

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Karthik Manickam @karthikmanickam.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Really excited to chair this incredibly important discussion as part of the SAPE series this Wednesday 10 Dec at 1PM ET/11:30pm IST!

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Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis @scepa-economics.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

New SCEPA Research: Most Americans still don’t have enough to retire - and the gap is growing. Our latest Tracking the Retirement Crisis report breaks down the numbers and what it means for the future. www.economicpolicyresearch.org/research/mos...

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Most Americans Do Not Have Enough to Retire — ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH

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.

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Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis @scepa-economics.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Prof. Sanjay Reddy's letter in the FT questions proposals for “balanced trade” in a revised US-Mexico-Canada deal. Increasing U.S. producers’ input costs would hurt competitiveness, not help workers. And labour/enviro standards deserve direct attention. www.ft.com/content/56f2...

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Letter: A confusing prescription for ‘balanced trade’

From Sanjay G Reddy, Professor of Economics, The New School for Social Research

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Teresa Ghilarducci @tghilarducci.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Honored to join Bloomberg TV Wall Street Week to discuss the urgent need to strengthen America’s retirement system. Other countries are taking meaningful steps - and there is a lot we can learn to ensure workers retire with dignity and security. Full segment: www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

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Can the World Afford to Retire? How One Country is Addressing the Crisis

Around the world, market forces – low interest rates, longer lives, workers changing jobs – are testing underfunded pension plans. We explore how the world should rethink financial security for aging ...

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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

private equity firms extract, they do not 'invest' who do they extract from? workers, patients, children in childcare centers they buy.. disgusted by this and in no way surprised

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Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis @scepa-economics.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Millions of Americans care for aging loved ones — but who cares for them? Our piece explores how unpaid caregivers manage retirement and financial strain, and why the U.S. needs to investment in long-term care. @jessforden.bsky.social @erinsimmons.bsky.social generations.asaging.org/caregiving-a...

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Caregiving and Retirement: Social Security and the Financial Strain of Eldercare - ASA Generations

Caregivers often turn to Social Security payments to make ends meet, leaving them in a vulnerable position later in life.

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Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis @scepa-economics.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The SCEPA team is so proud to have work featured in the latest edition of Generations Journal, "Transformative Approaches to Social Security Benefits" on who Social Security leaves behind and why that must change. This is a call for equity, evidence & action. generations.asaging.org/publications...

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Transformative Approaches to Social Security Benefits - ASA Generations

Generations Journal, vol. 49, no. 3 (Fall 2025)

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Karthik Manickam @karthikmanickam.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Really important piece by @tghilarducci.bsky.social on the politicisation of the SSA!

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Surbhi Kesar @surbhikesar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

How do we make sense of the many transitions across employment arrangements in India’s labour market? New in World Development, @rosaabraham.bsky.social & I study the trajectories that characterise Indian labour market, & identify 7 dominant ones. What do they look like? 🧵 x.com/surbhikesar/...

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Richard Kim @richardkimnyc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Is it tho??? 🤔🤔🤔🤔 www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/m...

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Teresa Ghilarducci @tghilarducci.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

We stand by our use of relative poverty measures—an international standard vital for assessing poverty in wealthy nations. They highlight the struggles older Americans face that absolute metrics miss; crucial for a fair discussion on elder poverty. www.economicpolicyresearch.org/resource-lib...

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Lowballing Elder Poverty: Who Counts As “Poor” In America? - The New School SCEPA

Relative senior poverty levels are more than double the official U.S. rate. Issue Brief | Official U.S. poverty rates significantly undercount America’s elderly poor. According to internationally-reco...

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Teresa Ghilarducci @tghilarducci.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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

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Karthik Manickam @karthikmanickam.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Really important series on older Americans and debt, featuring a small soundbite by yours truly!

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Erin Simmons @erinsimmons.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

@karthikmanickam.bsky.social & I are researching @SCEPA the impact of student debt on retirement & compiling NYC resources for people seeking support! If you know great community orgs/center/person doing this work, esp with older NYers, pls share! #SocialSecurity #NYC #Debt #StudentDebt #retirement

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Karthik Manickam @karthikmanickam.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Fantastic new paper by @prachibansal.bsky.social and co that discusses the distributional effects of inflation volatility in India!

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Kalecki (1943): Political Aspects of Full Employment Reads like a comment on the great reversal in common sense on fiscal policy among German economists

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Monique Morrissey @moniquemorrissey.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Social Security clawed back benefits from a very alive "dead" man. This could be a random error, but in the first Trump administration these purges were anything but random. Here's what Daniel Costa and I wrote at the time. www.epi.org/blog/cleanin...

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Cleaning up administrative records or targeting immigrants?

The Trump administration recently began implementing a “no-match” policy of flagging administrative records that don’t match what the Social Security Administration (SSA) has on file. If you’ve been f...

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Teresa Ghilarducci @tghilarducci.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

TNS Economist Rick McGahey quoted in the @nytimes.com “This is what authoritarians do — manipulate public policy and control it with personal decisions and seemingly idiosyncratic decisions, often to get or push for political support in return.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/b...

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Trump Has Said ‘No Exceptions’ to His Tariffs. Will That Last?

His administration has acknowledged that exceptions undercut the power of tariffs, but it seems hard for the president to resist making deals.

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Monique Morrissey @moniquemorrissey.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

@joshbivens-econ.bsky.social channeling @delong in 2022: If Tesla sold all the cars bought in the US by the end of the next decade & made a per-car profit 10x that of GM, Ford & Fiat-Chrysler then that would be enough to justify its current stock valuation. www.epi.org/publication/...

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CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978: CEOs were paid 399 times as much as a typical worker in 2021

What this report finds: Corporate boards running America’s largest public firms are giving top executives outsize compensation packages that have grown much faster than the stock market and the pay of...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/03/2025

Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.

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Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency

One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…

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Monique Morrissey @moniquemorrissey.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

@itpi.bsky.social has an updated resource guide for anyone needing to get up to speed quickly on the effects of privatization, including school vouchers. inthepublicinterest.org

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Home - In the Public Interest

In the Public Interest is a national nonprofit research and policy organization that studies public goods and services.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

NEW: The Social Security Administration is cutting staff. Field offices will be affected. The same thing happened in the 80s, when 21% of field office jobs were cut. And a new research paper finds that it resulted in 80,000 eligible Americans not getting earned benefits. prospect.org/health/2025-...

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How Social Security Administration Cuts Affect You

A timely research paper looking at SSA staff cuts in the 1980s found that it led to tens of thousands of Americans not getting their earned benefits.

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PERI Umass Amherst @periumass.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Professor Prabhat Patnaik: "The Crisis of Neo-Liberalism and Its Sequel." Join us on March 11 at 4pm ET. In person at UMass Amherst or via Zoom. Visit: peri.umass.edu/event/7176/ for more info.

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Professor Prabhat Patnaik: The Crisis of Neo-Liberalism and Its Sequel

Join us on March 11 at 4pm ET. In person at UMass Amherst or via Zoom. Visit: https://peri.umass.edu/event/7176/ for more info.

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi @ahakram-lodhi.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The US-funded Demographic and Health Surveys, without doubt the single most reliable data source for umpteen countries in the global South, received a termination email last night. In the future this may well be viewed as a crime against humanity

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I am sad to share that all Retirement & Disability Research centers have been ordered to stop work. My fellowship will no longer exist, and the work of so many talented researchers and dedicated staff will be cut short. www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

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Press Release | Press Office | SSA

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Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven @ingridhk.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Just seeing the RCT 'scandal' brewing among econs again. This is not a question about some bad apples or some instances of malpractice. The RCT industry has been completely distorted from its inception in Econ and this is closely tied to the incentive structure of the discipline.

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Karthik Manickam @karthikmanickam.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Really interesting panel at ISLE connecting Kalyan Sanyal's work on Rethinking Capitalist Development to conceptualisations of peasant agriculture, solid waste management, and more. #econ

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