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Is there really a free lunch? Repeated copies of a proposal called RISE – Retirement Income Security for Everyone – have arrived in my email, accompanied by endorsements from some serious people. After the third or fourth missile, I felt compelled to take a closer look. The proposal supposedly would eliminate poverty and income inequality…
Since the 1980s, the share of the U.S. population over 65 has grown steadily. At the same time, the share of low-income older people living in nursing homes has declined sharply. New research by the University of Wisconsin’s Mary Hamman finds that this trend is, to some extent, being driven by an increasingly diverse population…
