Tag: COVID

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Abstract This paper uses the monthly Current Population Survey to study older workers’ transitions out of employment and into retirement before and during the pandemic.  It examines whether the effect of the pandemic was particularly acute for workers with certain demographic characteristics and working conditions, and for those who faced different local public health and…

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The Affordable Care Act gives a carrot to states that expand Medicaid from a health insurance program mainly for poor people to one that also includes low-income workers. Under the 2010 law, the federal government initially paid the full cost of adding more people to the Medicaid rolls, and a large majority of states hav…