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Pension Liabilities: Fear Tactics and Serious Policy

Rosnick, David; Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012

This working paper argues that pension funds should adopt a funding principle that is consistent with a return on holdings conditional on the state of the stock market. As will be shown, the expected “conditional rate of return” used in making this assessment will vary depending on the...

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Making Jobs Good

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

of several policies that seek to address job quality, including universal health insurance, a universal retirement system …

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Has Education Paid Off for Black Workers?

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

employer-provided health insurance, and an employer-sponsored retirement plan – has actually declined. This paper looks at this …

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Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012

The U.S. workforce is substantially older and better-educated than it was at the end of the 1970s. The typical worker in 2010 was seven years older than in 1979. In 2010, over one-third of US workers had a four-year college degree or more, up from just one-fifth in 1979. Given that older and...

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Bad Jobs on the Rise

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012

insurance; and has no employer-sponsored retirement plan. By our calculations, about 24 percent of U.S. workers were in a bad …

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Who's Above the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap?

Jones, Janelle; Schmitt, John; Woo, Nicole - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011

When most workers look at their pay stubs, they can see that the Social Security payroll tax rate is 12.4 percent – with the employee and employer each paying 6.2 percent. But many workers do not know that any annual wages above $106,800 are not taxed by Social Security. In other words, a...

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The Impact of Cutting Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments on the Living Standards of the Elderly

Baker, Dean; Rosnick, David - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011

lower benefits. Since the vast majority of retirees rely on Social Security for the bulk of their retirement income, this …

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Maintaining and Improving Social Security for Poorly Compensated Workers

Fremstad, Shawn - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011

government should strengthen Social Security in ways that increase the retirement security of middle- and working-class Americans …. Particular attention should be paid to improving the living standards in retirement of workers in poorly compensated jobs, who … typically have little or no retirement savings outside of Social Security. Some recent proposals to cut Social Security would …

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Who's (Still) Above the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap?

Jones, Janelle; Schmitt, John; Woo, Nicole - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012

The Social Security payroll tax cap is the earnings level above which no further Social Security taxes are collected. The cap is currently at $110,100, though legislation has been introduced in Congress to apply the Social Security payroll tax to earnings above $250,000 (but not between the...

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The Impact on Inequality of Raising the Social Security Retirement Age

Baker, Dean; Rosnick, David - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012

There have been a number of proposals in policy circles that involve raising the Social Security retirement age. This … increases in longevity. This paper examines the impact of an increase in the retirement age on various demographic groups … retirement age from 67 to 70 (2 months a year for 18 years) on each quintile of the wealth distribution using data from the …

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