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Who Says They Have Ever Used a Government Social Program? The Role of Policy Visibility
2012 paper from Cornell University on the disjunction between citizens who acknowledge accessing government social programs and the number who actually do.
What Can We Learn From Analyzing Historical Data on Social Security Entitlements?
2011 U.S. government report on the ages of Social Security and Disability Insurance applicants over time.
Earnings Inequality and Mobility in the United States: Evidence from Social Security Data Since 1937
2011 study in Quarterly Journal of Economics on U.S. mobility and inequality since 1937.
2011 government report on the state of Medicare funding and future solvency.
Assessing the Impact of the Great Recession on Income and Poverty Across States
2011 fact sheet published by Congress’s Joint Economic Committee on the recession’s impact at the state level.
Who Never Receives Social Security Benefits?
2011 paper by the Office of Retirement Policy on “never-beneficiaries” aged 62 to 84.
Are Caucuses Bad for Democracy?
2010 study in Political Science Quarterly on qualities and representative nature of U.S. primary election caucuses.
2011 Annual Report by the Social Security Board of Trustees
2011 U.S. Government report on the challenges facing the Social Security system and its ability to meet its obligations to retirees and those on disability.
Role of Financial Literacy in Retirement Plans
2010 study for National Bureau of Economic Research on lack of financial knowledge and retirement decisions.
Saving for Retirement: Overcoming Human Biases and Knowledge Deficits
2010 report by the Social Security Administration on faulty decision-making in retirement investing strategies.
The Troubled U.S. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
2008 study published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives on the factors that have hurt the U.S. pension-insurance corporation.
How Longer Work Lives Ease the Crunch of Population Aging
2009 RAND Corporation paper examines the effects of workers remaining in the workforce for longer periods of time.
