by Elvis Guzman and Nakia Gladden
Social Security is an essential social insurance program that provides economic security for U.S. workers and their families in retirement, in case of disability or death of a breadwinner. The program protects families from falling into poverty, and is especially important to vulnerable families that do not have the necessary income or savings to get by.
by Elvis Guzman and Madhulika Vulimiri
African American retirees have significantly less wealth and lower incomes than White retirees. Eighty-three percent of African American seniors lack the retirement assets they need to last the remainder of their lifetimes.
Maya Rockeymoore and Meizhu Lui, co-chairs of the Commission to Modernize Social Security, recently wrote an op-ed titled “Social Security as a Civil Right” for the National Journal‘s “The Next America,” a feature on how demography shapes the national agenda. Continue reading
By: Wilhelmina A. Leigh, Ph.D. and Melissa R. Wells
This fall 2012 poll from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies finds that, although more than half of both African Americans and white Americans are ‘very or somewhat’ confident that they will be financially secure during retirement, this financial security may not become reality. Continue reading
By: Wilhelmina A. Leigh, Ph.D. and Melissa R. Wells
This 2012 poll conducted by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies finds that majorities of black Americans and white Americans hold the same views about proposals that would foster solvency and proposals that would improve benefit adequacy within the Social Security system. Continue reading
