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Pew Finds Post-Recession Boomers and Gen-Xers Are Less Prepared for Retirement than Older Generations
A new study from The Pew Charitable Trusts, Retirement Security Across Generations: Are Americans Prepared for Their Golden Years?, examines the savings behavior of five age groups before the Great Recession. The research also explores how wealth losses during the recession affected each group’s retirement security by calculating replacement rates.
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Pew Explores Damaging Effects of Unemployment & Unexpected Wealth Losses on Mobility and Economic Security
A new study from The Pew Charitable Trusts, Hard Choices: Navigating the Economic Shock of Unemployment, examines how American families cope with unexpected financial setbacks and how those periods of economic uncertainty draw down financial resources. The report studies families across race and income levels, revealing different experiences resulting from unemployment and the difficult choices many of them face. more
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Pew Experts Respond to President's State of the Union Address
In his 2013 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama raised two issues that are relevant to the work of The Pew Charitable Trusts: economic mobility and elections.
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February 13, 2013
Economic Mobility: Reaction to the State of the Union & GOP Response
Economic mobility is a unifying and bipartisan idea discussed by both President Obama in his State of the Union address and Senator Marco Rubio in the GOP response. Erin Currier discusses drivers, such as education, savings, and neighborhood poverty, that impact people's ability to achieve the American Dream. more
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Pew Report Finds Recent College Graduates Well-Protected Against Worst Effects of Recession
The newest research from Pew’s Economic Mobility Project reveals that a four-year college degree helped shield the latest graduates from a range of poor employment outcomes during the Great Recession, including unemployment, low-skill jobs, and lesser wages. more
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Rick Santorum Is Right About Europe
One of the more unexpected moments in Tuesday night’s Republican presidential debate came when Rick Santorum suggested that Europe might do better than the United States in some regards.
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What the Recession Has Done to the Rich
December marks the fourth anniversary of the start of the Great Recession. The nation has become a different place during that period: Poverty has worsened, young Americans are being hit hard by unemployment, and government debt has skyrocketed.
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From Good Times to Bad Times
Bob Baschoff used to work for a bank, commanding a corner office and a six-figure salary that allowed his family to enjoy a comfortable life in the wealthy lakefront village of Lake Bluff. All of that is gone now.
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How to Restore Blacks' Upward Mobility?
In his jobs speech earlier this month, President Barack Obama spoke eloquently of a time when Americans felt that hard work invariably paid off. We "believed in a country where everyone gets a fair shake and does their fair share."
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Housing Industry Problems Dragging Down Economy
It barely rated a mention during either the president’s speech Thursday or the Republican candidates’ debate the previous night. more
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U.S. Median Household Income Falls
Anthony Mason finds out what the decrease in the median household income means for the average American.
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The Sad, Sorry State of the Middle Class
One needs only to browse the headlines, or perhaps observe the bustling action at your neighborhood thrift store, to realize that America’s middle classes have been faring poorly lately. more
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Study: 33 Percent Of Americans Raised Middle Class Move Downward As Adults
That headline may not seem significant, but here's how Pew Charitable Trusts sells its finding that 33 percent of adults who grew up middle class end up sliding downward.
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Middle-Class Americans Often Fall Down Economic Ladder: Study
The promise of the American dream has given many hope that they themselves could one day rise up the economic ladder.
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Who is Falling Out of the Middle Class
The Pew Charitable Trusts published an interesting study Tuesday on middle-class mobility, looking at the one-third of Americans who fall out of the middle class after growing up there. more
