Archive: Briefs

Hand holding Blue piggy bank with  graduation hat, Saving money

The brief’s key findings are: Student debt among retirees is not currently large, but their debt-holding and delinquency rates have been rising rapidly. Retirees with delinquent loans can have part of their Social Security benefits withheld to pay the loans. Black households are more likely to hold student debt and to have delinquent loans. The study finds…

nurses greeting residents in hallway of nursing home

In Canada, as in the United States, a large share of COVID deaths during the first wave occurred in nursing homes.See Ontario Ministry of Health (2022a) for Ontario and Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec (2022) for Québec.  As a result, the pandemic shed light on lax infection control practices and lack of staff…