Tag: Social Security
This dependency needs to be part of any discussion about the program’s future. For decades, the Social Security Administration has put out reports showing the percentage of household income attributable to Social Security. In recent years, some analysts have criticized the reliance of these estimates on data from the Current Population Survey (CPS). Studies hav…
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…
