Social Security and Retirement

A new report by David Rosnick shows that the increase in life expectancy in the U.S. over time has had a two-fold effect: For younger workers, increased longevity and higher productivity will permit longer retirements. But the decision to raise the retirement age from 65 to 67 took back much of these gains for a generation of workers.

The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration

A new CEPR report finds that the United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. The authors show that lowering the nonviolent incarceration by half would save state and local governments $15 billion dollars per year.