Tag: Social Security

human arrow

Rank-and-file workers’ wages have barely gone up since the 2008-09 recession, despite a U.S. job market firing on all cylinders for several years. Latinos struggle more than most. Take restaurant workers. They are overrepresented in an industry that expanded rapidly post-recession, putting hundreds of thousands of cooks, waiters, and busboys to work. But “those ar…

Social Security sign in a garden

Abstract Analysts often compile packages of Social Security changes based on publicly available projections of the effects of individual provisions.  Such analyses may neglect issues of whether and how the provisions might interact to alter intended outcomes, thwarting the proposal’s financing and distributional goals.  To inform policymakers about the importance of such interactions in examining…