The existing Social Security special minimum benefit, which offers an alternative benefit formula for long-term workers with low levels of wages across many years, has the potential to reduce poverty among the elderly, while rewarding significant numbers of working years. The paper proposes...

A college education has been linked to higher life-time earnings and better economic achievements, so the expectation would be that it is also linked to higher net wealth for everybody. However, recent analyses challenge this hypothesis and find that the expectation holds true for White...