How Secure Is Employment at Older Ages?
Resources - Author: Peter Gosselin, Richard W. Johnson / Year: 2018
Tracking older adults in the Health and Retirement Study from 1992 to 2016, we find that about one-half of full-time, full-year workers ages 51 to 54 experience an employer-related involuntary job separation after age 50 that substantially reduces earnings for years or leads to long-term unemployment. The steady earnings...
Read MoreActivist to Entrepreneur: The role of social enterprise in supporting women’s empowerment in the US
Resources - Author: Bally Sappal, Mark Richardson / Year: 2017
This report examines the role that social enterprise is playing in addressing gender inequality and women’s empowerment in the US, where women earn 65 cents for every dollar earned by a man and are chronically under-represented in positions of leadership. It is one of a series of reports on...
Read MoreMaterial Hardship among Nonelderly Adults and Their Families in 2017: Implications for the Safety Net
Resources - Author: Dulce Gonzalez, Michael Karpman, Stephen Zuckerman / Year: 2018
Federal and state policymakers are weighing changes to federal programs that help low-income people meet their basic needs for food, medical care, and shelter. As policymakers consider these changes to the public safety net, they run the risk of increasing material hardship, which could have detrimental short- and long-term...
Read MoreBuilding an adequate U.S. labor and social protection system for the 21st century (ESS ─ Working Paper No. 60)
Resources - Author: Sandra Polaski / Year: 2018
This paper reviews the erosion of labor and social protections for U.S. workers and households over recent decades. It discusses the causes and the relative weight of different elements of the erosion in order to bring clarity to the discussion of needed reforms. It proposes a framework of policy...
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