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What the Public Really Wants...on Retirement Security
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Ruy Teixeira,
The Century Foundation,
Center for American Progress,
1/14/2008
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The economy has not delivered strong wage growth or adequate savings opportunities in recent years for average Americans, resulting in widespread economic anxiety and insecurity. Not surprisingly, then, one particular area of anxiety is retirement. In this new brief from Ruy Teixeira's What the Public Really Wants...series, polling data consistently show that not having enough money for retirement is at the top of Americans’ economic concerns.
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How About a Bailout for Social Security?
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Greg Anrig,
The Century Foundation,
5/13/2009
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The media’s coverage of the new governmental reports showing that the severe economic recession has unsurprisingly taken a hit on the Social Security and Medicare trust funds uniformly leaves out an important fact: those two programs have proved to be invaluable to many millions of American families at a time when virtually every other form of personal financial support has collapsed. Retirees and near retirees have lost more than $10 trillion in housing and investment security wealth in the past two years, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Even those who not long ago seemed relatively comfortable with modest nest eggs and a decent home now recognize they would face severe financial hardship in the absence of Social Security and Medicare. Younger workers confronting their own economic pressures who have retired parents and loved ones would face much greater burdens and stress if those two stalwart programs provided less support than they do now for the elderly. Continue Readingon the Taking Note Blog.
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The Snapshot: Just Say No to Social Security Privatization
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The Century Foundation,
The Century Foundation,
10/10/2008
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Americans are feeling very dour about their financial situation these days. By about a 2-1 ratio, they say they are worse off today than they were a year ago, rather than better off.
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| The Longevity Revolution
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Demos and The Century Foundation
- 3/19/2009
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With our current recession deepening amid rising costs of healthcare, plunging 401k portfolios, and the collapse of the housing market, there is growing evidence that retirement security for today's seniors is unstable, at best. According to a recent Demos report, 78% of senior households are financially vulnerable, or lack the resources necessary to sustain themselves through the rest of their lives. With the baby boomer generation approaching retirement age, the future for older Americans is more uncertain than ever.
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| 90 Years of Progress
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- 12/1/2009
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This year marked the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of The Century Foundation (which was known for most of its history as the Twentieth Century Fund). Our founder, Edward Filene, created this organization with the goal of supporting studies and analysis that could lead to constructive action on our nation’s public policy. That heritage has compelled us to educate, provoke, and develop better answers when evidence and reason show that public debates are badly off track. Over the past nine decades, we have called attention to facts and analyses to correct widespread misconceptions and provide policymakers with new ideas for addressing the challenges facing the nation.
We have created this video to provide a glimpse into our story and how it is intertwined with America’s story for much of the twentieth century and beyond.
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Taking Note
