Progress in India’s unique ID project
Earlier this month, the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) hosted a fascinating event featuring Ashok Singh, the Deputy Director General at the Unique Identification Authority of India...
View ArticleA Subsidy for Dignity
March 14, 2012 A successful idea from Europe can make eldercare more affordable—and provide well-paying jobs—as the boomers approach retirement. Michael LindLauren DammeMarch 14, 2012In the aftermath...
View ArticleEncore Careers: Opportunities and Challenges in Bridging the Retirement...
The Asset Building Program hosted an event Thursday, March 29th to investigate the concept of “encore careers” as a potential way to bridge the retirement income gap. Civic Ventures, a non-profit...
View ArticleBudget Exacerbates Gaps in Retirement Security
The Asset Report 2012’s new data on retirement reveals just how difficult it is becoming for Americans to save enough money to support themselves once they have stopped working, particularly in the...
View ArticleThe Hole in the Bucket
July 11, 2012 Americans obsessed over personal finance during the last forty years as never before. So how come so many of us wound up broke? Here's the little-known story. Phillip LongmanJuly 11,...
View ArticleHow to Save Our Kids From Poverty in Old Age
July 11, 2012 The case for American Stakeholder Accounts. Phillip LongmanJuly 11, 2012The federal government spends more than $500 billion a year on policies designed to help individuals acquire or...
View ArticleThe Asset Agenda
July 11, 2012 Signature policy ideas for building the wealth of ordinary Americans. Reid CramerJuly 11, 2012Over the course of the last two decades, a community of academics, policy wonks, and...
View Article"Bringing the Future Nearer": Building the Wealth of Low & Middle Income...
Yesterday, Phil Longman and Dana Goldstein spoke with Minnesota Public Radio about their recent contributions to the July/August issue of the Washington Monthly. The issue, The Future of Success,...
View ArticleHealth and Wealth in Older Age
Last week on Washington Post's Wonkblog, Suzy Khimm reviewed a recent report from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) that examines the asset holdings of elderly households near the end of...
View ArticleIs Unlimited Growth a Thing of the Past?
by Jay Pelosky Very powerful piece by Martin Wolf in the Financial Times. Day to day market fluctuations are one thing, but the search for growth may well be the next big thing in financial markets –...
View ArticleDebt, Deficits, and Demographics
Why We Can Afford the Social Contract November 19, 2012 Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.For much of the last three decades, policy...
View ArticleTax Reform That Works: Building a Solid Fiscal Foundation with a VAT
November 29, 2012 Bruce Bartlett, Author, The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform -- Why We Need It and What It Will Take Click here to download the full paper as a PDF. .field-field-image { margin: 0...
View ArticleNo Discount: Comparing the Public Option to the Coupon Welfare State
December 3, 2012 Mike Konczal, Roosevelt Institute Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.The fundamental ideological conflict surrounding the Welfare State in the U.S. is no longer over the...
View ArticleCompeting Visions of the Past: Learning from History for the Future of...
December 6, 2012 Steven Attewell, University of California-Santa Barbara Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.In his 2012 nomination acceptance speech in Charlotte, President Obama argued...
View ArticleKludgeocracy: The American Way of Policy
December 10, 2012 Steven M. Teles, Johns Hopkins University Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.The last thirty years of American history have witnessed, at least rhetorically, a battle over...
View ArticleSocial Contract Budgeting: Prescriptions from Economics and History
December 17, 2012 Peter Lindert, University of California - Davis Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.If there is to be any durable hope for a social contract that transcends left-right...
View ArticlePublic Attitudes Toward the Next Social Contract
January 15, 2013 Bruce Stokes, Pew Research Center Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.The recent deliberations in Washington about the fiscal cliff have triggered a national debate in the...
View ArticleExpanded Social Security
A Plan to Increase Retirement Security for All Americans April 3, 2013Michael LindJoshua FreedmanSteven Hill Robert Hiltonsmith, Demos Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.Executive...
View ArticleTwo Ideas on How to Improve Retirement Security for All Americans
Editor's note: This post was originally published on Zócalo Public Square. In Washington, President Obama is expected to present his plans for changes in entitlements, including Social Security....
View ArticleNew Report Sheds Light on Magnitude of the Retirement Savings Crisis
A new report by the National Institute on Retirement Security (NIRS) entitled “The Retirement Savings Crisis: Is It Worse Than We Think?” finds the state of retirement savings is looking pretty grim...
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