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Social Security: Americans Agree VIDEO
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Social Security: Just the Facts Video
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COVERED: a week-by-week look at the political and legislative developments that led to the creation of Medicare and Medicaid 50 years ago. Bob Rosenblatt, Academy senior fellow and former Los Angeles Times Washington correspondent will report on the people and the maneuvers that led to this major expansion of social insurance.
NASI Highlights
- Regenerating Social Insurance for Millennials and the Millennium: Lessons Learned
- Forty-Five Experts Elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance
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Policy Innovations Challenge to Ensure Social Security Adequacy for Workers
The National Academy of Social Insurance is seeking innovative ideas to address the income adequacy needs of older workers who must claim Social Security retirement benefits early, due to ill health, an inability to continue to perform physically demanding jobs, or other factors.
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Assured Income as a Mechanism to Promote Economic Security
“Universal basic income” (UBI) has only recent come into popular usage, but the idea of assuring a base level of income to all is not new. Social insurance programs have been performing a similar function for much of the last century.
- Social Security Across the Lifespan: Addressing Misconceptions among Young People
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Achieving Access to Health Care Coverage and Services to Promote Economic Security and Ability to Participate in Work
In the United States, the ability to work plays a major role in having access to health insurance. Employment is now sometimes a condition for continued eligibility for some public health insurance programs, as well. In 2017, according to the U.S. Census, work provided access to employer-based private insurance for approximately 56% of Americans.
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Universal Family Care to Support Workers and Families
Currently, the United States provides no national social insurance programs to protect families from having to risk losing earnings to provide care or pay for expensive caregiving services. Every other advanced industrial (OECD) country provides some form of insurance for caregiving risks to ease the financial burden on working families.
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Furloughed Federal Workers and Unemployment Insurance
For furloughed federal workers, the partial shutdown began on December 22, 2018. These federal workers missed their first biweekly paycheck on January 11, 2019. If the shutdown continues, they will miss a second paycheck on January 25 and possibly future paychecks until the shutdown ends.
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One of the Top Challenges Facing the Academy
For all of us who are dedicated to the Academy’s mission - “increasing public understanding of how social insurance contributes to economic security” – 2019 has the makings of a challenging year.
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How Work is Changing—and What it Means for Workers and Social Insurance
We are on the cusp of a sea change in the area of work. One particular session at the Academy’s annual policy conference at the end of the month, therefore, couldn’t come at a better time.
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Political Science and Public Health Scholar at University of Pennsylvania wins 2019 John Heinz Dissertation Award
Isabel M. Perera is the 2019 winner of the John Heinz Dissertation Award. Wei-Ting Yen receives an honorable mention.
- Emerging and Uninsured Risks Facing Younger Generations
- The 2018 Midterm Elections, 116th U.S. Congress, and Social Insurance
- The Future of Social Security – Michigan Forum
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Uninsured and underinsured risks in this millennium
As the Academy gears up for our 31st annual policy conference, Regenerating Social Insurance for Millennials and the Millennium, I am thinking back to what we have learned from our last few conferences.
