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Research
American Academy of Actuaries: Women and Social Security (PDF)
AARP: Who is Ready for Retirement, How Ready, and How Can We Know?
Alex Lawson: Social Security Works for America
Ashley Carson: Demystifying the Deficit, Social Security Finances, and Commissions (PDF)
Ashley Carson: Doing Nothing
Center for American Progress Action Fund: Your Future On The Market: Social Security private accounts in a world of market instability (PDF)
Center for Economic and Policy Research: CEPR Statement on Social Security Trustees Report
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College: How Many Struggle to Get By in Retirement?
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College: Is There Really a Retirement Savings Crisis? An NRRI Analysis
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College: Households ‘At Risk’: A Closer Look at the Bottom Third
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College: What Moves the National Retirement Risk Index? A Look Back and an Update
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College: What Happens to Household Portfolios After Retirement?
Congressional Research Service: Income and Poverty Among Older Americans in 2008 (PDF)
Congressional Research Service: Income of Americans Aged 65 and Older, 1968 to 2008 (PDF)
Congressional Research Service: Retirement Savings and Household Wealth in 2007 (PDF)
Congressional Research Service: Income and Poverty Among Older Americans in 2007 (PDF)
Congressional Research Service: Income and Poverty Among Older Americans in 2006 (PDF)
Congressional Research Service: Retirement Savings: How Much Will Workers Have When They Retire? (PDF)
Congressional Research Service: Income and Assets of Older Americans (PPT)
Congressional Research Service: Older Workers: Employment and Retirement Trends (PDF)
Dean Baker: USA Today Editorial: Hands off Social Security
Dean Baker and David Rosnick: Taming the Deficit: Saving Our Children from Themselves (PDF)
Dean Baker and David Rosnick: The Wealth of the Baby Boom Cohorts After the Collapse of the Housing Bubble (PDF)
Generations United: Children and Families Have a Stake in Social Security (PDF)
Heather Boushey: Helping Breadwinners When It Can’t Wait A Progressive Program for Family Leave Insurance
Joan Entmacher: Strengthening Social Security Benefits for Widow(er)s (PDF)
Joni Lavery and Virginia P. Reno: Children’s Stake in Social Security
Karen Friedman: Senators…Keep your hands off Social Security
Luisa Grillo-Chope and Carlos Ramos Domestic: Workers Working Hard to Sustain American Families, Compromising Their Social Security (PDF)
Madonna Harrington Meyer, Douglas A. Wolf, and Christine L. Himes: 65+ in the United States: Current Population Reports, Special Studies (PDF)
Melissa M. Favreault: A New Minimum Benefit for Low Lifetime Earners
National Academy of Social Insurance: Fixing Social Security: Adequate Benefits, Adequate Financing (PDF)
National Academy of Social Insurance: Economic Crisis Fuels Support for Social Security (PDF)
National Academy of Social Insurance: Social Security Finances: Findings of the 2009 Trustees Report (PDF)
National Academy of Social Insurance: Social Security and Retirement Income Adequacy
National Council of La Raza: Five Facts About Undocumented Workers in the United States
Natinal Gay and Lesbian Task Force Institute: Selling Us Short: How Social Security Privatization Will Affect Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Americans
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD): Pensions at a Glance, 2007
OWL-The Voice of Midlife and Older Women: SOCIAL SECURITY MATTERS to All Women (PDF)
OWL-The Voice of Midlife and Older Women: Gender Bias in the Social Security System
OWL-The Voice of Midlife and Older Women: Gender and the Social Security System
Pamela Herd: Care in Social Security: A Proposal for an Income Tested Care Credit
Patricia Dilley: Restoring Old Age Income Security for Low-Wage Single Workers (PDF)
Population Reference Bureau: Diversity, Poverty Characterize Female Headed Households (PDF)
Social Security Administration: Income of the Population 55 or Older, 2006
Terence Kane Deficit: debt hawks circling … aimlessly
The Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds: The 2009 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees
Urban Institute: Typical Wealth Held by Those at the Verge of Retirement
