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U.S. Economy

Information is power: Fostering labor market competition through transparent wages

Benjamin H. Harris

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

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Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) is shown speaking on a monitor about tax cuts during a media briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 17, 2018.

Up Front

6 ways to fix the tax system post-TCJA

Benjamin H. Harris and Adam Looney

Friday, May 25, 2018

U.S. 1040 Individual Income Tax forms are seen in New York

Taxation

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was a missed opportunity to establish a sustainable tax code

Benjamin H. Harris and Adam Looney

Thursday, May 24, 2018

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California state worker Curtis Walker looks over retirement plan brochures at the Calpers regional office in Sacramento, California October 21, 2009. Calpers, the largest U.S. public pension fund, manages retirement benefits for more than 1.6 million people, with assets comparable in value to the entire GDP of Israel. The Calpers investment portfolio had a historic drop in value, going from a peak of $250 billion in the fall of 2007 to $167 billion in March 2009, a loss of about a third during that period. It is now around $200 billion. REUTERS/Max Whittaker (UNITED STATES BUSINESS) - WASE5AM03UX01

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Can annuities become a bigger contributor to retirement security?

Martin Neil Baily and Benjamin H. Harris

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

elderly man looks out the window

Retirement, Pensions, & Social Security

Social Security isn’t the only retirement crisis. Look at Medicare and Medicaid.

William G. Gale and Benjamin H. Harris

Monday, April 29, 2019

Retirees play poker at a singles club in Sun City, Arizona, January 4, 2013. Sun City was built in 1959 by entrepreneur Del Webb as America?s first active retirement community for the over-55's. Del Webb predicted that retirees would flock to a community where they were given more than just a house with a rocking chair in which to sit and wait to die. Today?s residents keep their minds and bodies active by socializing at over 120 clubs with activities such as square dancing, ceramics, roller skating, computers, cheerleading, racquetball and yoga. There are 38,500 residents in the community with an average age 72.4 years. Picture taken January 4, 2013. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY)ATTENTION EDITORS - PICTURE 8 OF 30 FOR PACKAGE 'THE SPORTY SENIORS OF SUN CITY'SEARCH 'SUN CITY' FOR ALL IMAGES - GM1E91H00QW01

Retirement, Pensions, & Social Security

America’s retirement system is a mess. This new legislation can help

Martin Neil Baily and Benjamin H. Harris

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Farmer Tom Chino plants Yuchoi Sun transplants on his family farm in Rancho Santa Fe, California March 4, 2013. The gravitational pull of Chino Farm is legendary. Since they don't ship, everyone - whether a top chef or a traveling foodie or a local resident - comes to the farm stand, simply called "Vegetable Shop," on a dusty corner of this affluent San Diego County town, hemmed in by sprawling housing estates. Long before farmers' markets and heirloom vegetables popped up across the country, Tom Chino's parents bought the 45-acre (18.2-hectare) farm after World War Two and forged their independence from wholesalers and supermarkets, setting their prices and cultivating a diverse offering of crops. REUTERS/Mike Blake (UNITED STATES - Tags: AGRICULTURE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT FOOD)ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE 04 OF 23 PICTURES FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY 'FOUR SEASONS OF CHINO FARM'SEARCH 'CHINO FARM' FOR ALL IMAGES - LM2EABO11FQ01

Retirement, Pensions, & Social Security

Working longer policies: Framing the issues

Martin Neil Baily and Benjamin H. Harris

Thursday, January 31, 2019

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Ben jamin Wittes on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell

Impeachment

Judiciary committee plans to vote on articles of impeachment this week

Benjamin Wittes

msnbc.com December 9, 2019

Ulrike Neveling 60-year old head of Accounting Department is pictured at her office at the headquarters of Rullko wholesale in Hamm March 4, 2014. Marie-Christine Ostermann is desperate to hang on to her older employees. There's already a shortage of skilled labour in Germany and a new draft law that lowers the pension age for some workers is adding to her problems. Six of the 150 staff at family-run food and kitchen supplies wholesaler Rullko say they'd like to retire at 63 this summer, when the new law is due to take effect. That's four years earlier than planned - a big worry for Ostermann. TO GO WITH GERMANY-PENSIONS/ REUTERS/Ina Fassbender (GERMANY - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - BM2EA341DLX01

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

COVID-19 and retirement: Impact and policy responses

Martin Neil Baily, Benjamin H. Harris, and Siddhi Doshi

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

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A retired couple take in the ocean during a visit to the beach in La Jolla, California January 8, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Blake (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT) - GM1E9190GEM01

Retirement, Pensions, & Social Security

The retirement revolution

Martin Neil Baily and Benjamin H. Harris

Friday, June 8, 2018

home wealth

Report

The wealth of generations, with special attention to the millennials

William G. Gale, Hilary Gelfond, Jason Fichtner, and Benjamin H. Harris

Thursday, May 28, 2020

retired couple sits on the beach

Report

Evidence-based retirement policy: Necessity and opportunity

William G. Gale, Benjamin H. Harris, and Claire Haldeman

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Mark Findlay and his wife Delores Findlay, of Erie, Pennsylvania, read the morning newspaper inside their home at Limetree Park where they spend the winter months in Bonita Springs, Florida, March 23, 2012. Medicare and Social Security, the massive programs that pay benefits to tens of millions of older Americans, are contentious issues in the 2012 presidential campaign. Seniors want the nation?s sputtering economy to be fixed, but not at their expense. REUTERS/Steve Nesius (UNITED STATES - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS SOCIETY) - TM3E846043F01

Retirement, Pensions, & Social Security

The unfulfilled promise of reverse mortgages: Can a better market improve retirement security?

Martin Neil Baily, Benjamin H. Harris, and Ting Wang

Monday, October 28, 2019

Then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch in the northeastern city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, in 2016. (U.S. Embassy in Ukraine)

Impeachment

The Story the Impeachment Depositions Tell

Benjamin Wittes and Margaret L. Taylor

Lawfare November 12, 2019

Acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor arrives to testify at a closed-door deposition as part of the U.S. House of Representatives impeachment inquiry led by the House Intelligence, House Foreign Affairs and House Oversight and Reform Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 22, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso - RC1225F461D0

Impeachment

The Ukraine Transcripts Are a Road Map for Impeachment

Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes

The Atlantic November 11, 2019