Tag: UMass Boston
To bring a broader perspective to issues affecting retirement and aging, the Center for Retirement Research (CRR) at Boston College is working with the Gerontology Institute and other researchers at the University of Massachusetts Boston. The five-year arrangement is supporting research projects by UMass Boston researchers in collaboration with CRR and is funding summer researc…
Half of older households fall below 200 percent of poverty. Recently, I was appointed to the Governor’s Council to Address Aging in Massachusetts. The Council has a broad mandate, but I’m an economist so I care about whether older people in Massachusetts have enough money. Apparently they do not: Massachusetts ranks among the worst in…
