Research
After four years of COVID-imposed Zoom meetings, retirement and disability researchers from around the country will meet again in Washington, DC. The theme running through much of the research they will present at the 2024 meeting involves the economic and financial security of various underserved communities. The three-day event, which starts on Wednesday, Aug. 7,…
Here is just some of what decades of research has revealed about poverty’s ill effects on children: lower birth weights and more obesity, diabetes, asthma, anxiety, smoking, depression, and intellectual disabilities, as well as lower college attendance and a greater likelihood of entering the criminal justice system. And then there is the negative fallout if…
