Social Mobility In the USA, Federal Reserve Report
Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the United States – Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Social capital I: measurement and associations with economic mobility
Read MoreThe Anomaly of US Health Care Costs
Health spending | OECD For 75 years the extremely inefficient US medical system financing model has had poor performance, and unfortunately, red flags are all we can see into the future. Cicerone Medicare Finances: A Perspective on the…
Read MoreOECD Skills Testing, US Rankings 2023
Age 16 to 65 Literacy: 16th of 31 developed nations, our peers are Czechia and Croatia. Numeracy: 25th of 31, our peers are Italy and Lithuania. Problem Solving: 19th of 31, our peers are Czechia and Slovakia. Age 16 to 24 (our…
Read MorePoverty; a US Public Health Crisis
Novel Estimates of Mortality Associated With Poverty in the US | Health Disparities | JAMA Internal Medicine | JAMA Network
Read MoreThe Percent of older Homeowners With a Mortgage is Rising
Between 1989 and 2022, the share of homeowners aged 65–79 with a mortgage on their primary home increased from 24 to 41 percent. The median mortgage debt shot up over 400 percent, from $21,000 in 1989 to $110,000. • Among homeowners age…
Read MoreA Useful Policy Fix to Aid Social Security
The Case for Using Subsidies for Retirement Plans to Fix Social Security The Case for Using Subsidies for Retirement Plans to Fix Social Security – Center for Retirement Research
Read MorePossible Social Security Income Shortfall in 8 years
How Much Would Social Security’s 2033 Shortfall Cost You? | Kiplinger A 3.2% withdrawal rate is likely a more sustainable metric. Additionally, if the household receives more than one check, additional savings would be needed to…
Read MoreDemocracy is on a Steady Decline; Autocracy Is On the Ascendant in the World
V-DEM Democracy Report 2025 25 Years of Autocratization – Democracy Trumped? Note in the 2026 report, due to the election in the USA, autocracy will be further enshrined. Cicerone
Read MoreSocial Security Income’s Decline in Buying Power
Social Security Benefits Lose 20% Of Buying Power Since 2010 | The Senior Citizens League TSCL-LOBP-Report-2024.pdf
Read MoreVirtual Labor Hours, Imports, Exports, and Tariff Decisions
The international division of labor and embodied working time in trade for the US, the EU and China – ScienceDirect Here we can see that both the US and the EU were net importers of working time and rely more on work performed…
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