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Rethinking the American Social Contract
The International Labor Organization's Decent Work Agenda in the United States July 7, 2011Lauren DammeThe evolution of certain aspects of the American social contract has lagged behind that of other...
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The Jobs Question
Decent Jobs ForumJuly 19, 2011 James K. Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin This is by far the most jobless...
View ArticleThe Intellectual Collapse of Left and Right
August 23, 2011Michael LindAugust 23, 2011Democrats and Republicans alike are failing to convince the American people that they have the answer to their country's problems. Underneath, however, lies a...
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Facing Up to the Retirement Savings Deficit
From 401(k)s to Universal and Automatic Accounts October 13, 2011Michael CalabreseFive years ago Congress enacted modest improvements for employer-sponsored pension and 401(k) plans. Since President...
View ArticleEvent Summary: Facing Up to the Retirement Savings Deficit
On October 13, 2011, we hosted an event focused on the retirement savings deficit and possible ways to address the ongoing problem of retirement income security in the U.S. The video webcast is...
View ArticleA Subsidy for Dignity
March 14, 2012 A successful idea from Europe can make eldercare more affordable—and provide well-paying jobs—as the boomers approach retirement. Michael LindLauren DammeMarch 14, 2012In the aftermath...
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Encore Careers: Opportunities and Challenges in Bridging the Retirement...
The Asset Building Program hosted an event Thursday, March 29th to investigate the concept of “encore careers” as a potential way to bridge the retirement income gap. Civic Ventures, a non-profit...
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Budget Exacerbates Gaps in Retirement Security
The Asset Report 2012’s new data on retirement reveals just how difficult it is becoming for Americans to save enough money to support themselves once they have stopped working, particularly in the...
View ArticleThe Hole in the Bucket
July 11, 2012 Americans obsessed over personal finance during the last forty years as never before. So how come so many of us wound up broke? Here's the little-known story. Phillip LongmanJuly 11,...
View ArticleHow to Save Our Kids From Poverty in Old Age
July 11, 2012 The case for American Stakeholder Accounts. Phillip LongmanJuly 11, 2012The federal government spends more than $500 billion a year on policies designed to help individuals acquire or...
View ArticleThe Asset Agenda
July 11, 2012 Signature policy ideas for building the wealth of ordinary Americans. Reid CramerJuly 11, 2012Over the course of the last two decades, a community of academics, policy wonks, and...
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"Bringing the Future Nearer": Building the Wealth of Low & Middle Income...
Yesterday, Phil Longman and Dana Goldstein spoke with Minnesota Public Radio about their recent contributions to the July/August issue of the Washington Monthly. The issue, The Future of Success,...
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Health and Wealth in Older Age
Last week on Washington Post's Wonkblog, Suzy Khimm reviewed a recent report from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) that examines the asset holdings of elderly households near the end of...
View ArticleIs Unlimited Growth a Thing of the Past?
by Jay Pelosky Very powerful piece by Martin Wolf in the Financial Times. Day to day market fluctuations are one thing, but the search for growth may well be the next big thing in financial markets –...
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Debt, Deficits, and Demographics
Why We Can Afford the Social Contract November 19, 2012 Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.For much of the last three decades, policy...
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Tax Reform That Works: Building a Solid Fiscal Foundation with a VAT
November 29, 2012 Bruce Bartlett, Author, The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform -- Why We Need It and What It Will Take Click here to download the full paper as a PDF. .field-field-image { margin: 0...
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No Discount: Comparing the Public Option to the Coupon Welfare State
December 3, 2012 Mike Konczal, Roosevelt Institute Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.The fundamental ideological conflict surrounding the Welfare State in the U.S. is no longer over the...
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Competing Visions of the Past: Learning from History for the Future of...
December 6, 2012 Steven Attewell, University of California-Santa Barbara Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.In his 2012 nomination acceptance speech in Charlotte, President Obama argued...
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Kludgeocracy: The American Way of Policy
December 10, 2012 Steven M. Teles, Johns Hopkins University Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.The last thirty years of American history have witnessed, at least rhetorically, a battle over...
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Social Contract Budgeting: Prescriptions from Economics and History
December 17, 2012 Peter Lindert, University of California - Davis Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.If there is to be any durable hope for a social contract that transcends left-right...
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