1. Who is Above the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap
(Matching tags: Social Security)

May 31, 2012

2. CEPR News, March 2013
(Matching tags: poverty, venezuela, retirement, inequality, paid sick days, Haiti, Social Security, medicare, Honduras, minimum wage, financial transactions tax)

... Associate Jake Johnston penned this widely-circulated graphic representation of Venezuela’s economic and social performance under Chávez. CEPR also posted several pieces on responses from world leaders ...

3. New CBO Estimates Show How Shifting to Chained CPI Would Harm Poorly Compensated Workers and Others Struggling to Afford the Basics
(Matching tags: poverty, retirement, inequality, Social Security, income, cost of living)

I wrote back in December about how the shift to a “chained” CPI would have negative impacts that go far beyond Social Security. On March 1, the Congressional Budget Office released a new estimate that ...

4. Let’s Not Make a Deal
(Matching tags: Social Security, taxes, chained cpi)

With news of President Obama's efforts to make some Republican BFFs, there are reports that he's trying to make a deal by yet again offering to cut Social Security and other benefits, while at the same ...

5. CEPR News January 2013
(Matching tags: imf, venezuela, inequality, unemployment, Haiti, Social Security, unions, medicare, minimum wage, Greece, eurozone)

The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more in January. CEPR on Haiti Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Watch blogger and CEPR International Research Associate ...

6. Seventy-Two New Members Elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance
(Matching tags: Social Security, payroll tax cap, COLA)

The National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) recently announced the addition of 72 new scholars including CEPR’s Director of Domestic Policy, Nicole Woo.  Members of the Academy are nominated ...

7. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, January 5 – January 25, 2013
(Matching tags: labor market, inequality, job creation, Social Security, economic recovery)

Here are the labor market policy research reports released in the past few weeks: Center for Economic and Policy Research Raising the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap: How Many Workers Would Pay More? ...

8. The Chained CPI is a Bad Deal for Kids and Low-Income Working-Age Adults Too
(Matching tags: poverty, retirement, inequality, Social Security, Supplemental Security Income)

... addition to Social Security, the following major federal benefit benefit programs include inflation-indexing elements that rely on the non-chained CPI-U or CPI-W: —Medicaid; —Supplemental Security ...

9. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, December 8 – 14, 2012
(Matching tags: retirement, labor market, Social Security, taxes, right to work)

... Boushey and David Madland Center for Economic Policy and Research The Chained CPI: A Painful Cut in Social Security Benefits and a Stealth Tax Hike Alan Barber and Nicole Woo Economic Policy Institute ...

10. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, September 22 – 28, 2012
(Matching tags: health care, labor market, Social Security, unions, paid family leave, collective bargaining)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past week:   Center for American Progress Social Security Cares: Why America is Ready for Paid Family and Medical Leave Ann ...