Friday, August 20, 2021
Many Americans have trouble covering their costs of living with income solely from Social Security. Now, a bill has been reintroduced in Congress aimed at reducing the risk that older Americans, women and people of color will live in poverty despite...
Thursday, April 1, 2021
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Everyone participates in the social contract every day, and we rarely stop to think about it. Yet social...
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Monday, December 14, 2020
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The US state of California has voted to keep rideshare and delivery industry workers as independent...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020
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Today we honor over 19 million Americans who have served in the military, of whom one in 13 is in poverty....
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America, Canada, United States
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Monday, April 13, 2020
The Treasury Department launched a new web tool allowing quick registration for economic impact payments for eligible individuals who do not normally file a tax return, and also announced it would begin making automatic payments, according to a press...
Monday, January 20, 2020
BLOG: Over the past decade or so, Israeli lawmakers have been slowly curtailing and revoking social benefits from (mostly poor) Palestinian families—citizens of Israel who have contributed to the system all their lives—under the pretext of national...
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America, United States, Asia, Israel, Palestinian Territory
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Friday, January 17, 2020
Retirement income is often thought to come from three sources: Social Security, pensions and savings. That combination is often called a three-legged stool, a metaphor for the money retirees use to support themselves once they are no longer working full...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
OPINION: It's a journalism cliche that reporters always highlight the bad: they never write about the planes that don't crash or the companies that don't lie and cheat. But the topic of working into old age seems to be one of the most consistent...
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Global, United States, America
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Tuesday, January 7, 2020
VIDEO: As strikes continue in France over pension reform, we focus on the situation in the United States. US pensions are based on a public pay-as-you-go system, which is managed at the federal level and is much less generous than in France....
Thursday, December 12, 2019
BLOG: The way the system functions now, workers choose an age between 62 to 70 to begin receiving benefits. Those under age 66 (at present) or age 67 (after the final phase in of the retirement age increase in 2027) will see benefit cuts of between 25% (...