We use the March 2022 Current Population Survey (CPS) Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) to assess distributional differences related to income and poverty, racial differences, and geographical differences among ...

The majority of older workers have jobs that require some physical effort, and one-quarter experience a new disability after age 55. Roughly 25 percent of these work-limiting disabilities are incurred on the job. Work-related ...

A key question that this study aims to explore is whether Social Security income payment timing affects financial shortfalls. We would expect that pay cycle would not affect likelihood of financial shortfall. However, this ...

This paper uses data from the Criminal Justice Administrative Records Systems linked with survey and administrative data sources from the U.S. Census Bureau to provide the first evidence on the looming retirement crisis ...

The growing number of individuals suffering from a serious mental illness underscores the important role of interventions such as treatments, policies, and programs to support those in need. Such support efforts often ...

Farm and ranch operators in the United States are an economically vulnerable group. Many family-owned farms without younger family members interested in farming face difficult retirement decisions. In addition, unlike other ...

Knowledge of the Social Security (SS) Old-Age and Survivors Insurance program affects people’s work, consumption, and savings decisions before retirement and in turn impacts financial well-being in retirement. Despite ...

Increases in average life expectancy, better health in older ages, and work becoming less physically demanding have all contributed to a greater number of working years and postponed retirement. However, this is not uniformly ...

The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021 significantly expands the Child Tax Credit (CTC), increasing the number of eligible children and payment amounts with advance monthly payments that began in July 2021. The expanded ...

A growing share of children reside in households with caregivers, often their grandparents, who are not their biological parents or in three-generation households that include one or both of their parents as well as one ...