In this Public Policy Brief, Barry Bluestone and Teresa Ghilarducci argue for the need to establish "wage insurance" in the current environment of stagnating wages, increasing income instability, and rising adult poverty. The War on Poverty has succeeded in reducing the poverty rate for elderly...

Barry Bluestone of the University of Massachusetts and Teresa Ghilarducci of the University of Notre Dame show that although the poverty rate for elderly Americans has declined over the past three decades, the total number of persons in poverty has grown and the number of poor nonelderly adults...

By any measure, pension coverage should be at an all-time high: the nation is richer and workers are older. However, the pension world is a paradox, as pension security falls for middle-class workers and pension spending increases. The United States government directly and indirectly spends more...

By any measure, pension coverage should be at an all time high: the nation is richer and workers are older. However, the pension world is a paradox, as pension security falls for middle class workers and pension spending increases. The United States government directly and indirectly spends over...