🚨ANALYSIS🚨 Ending taxes on Social Security benefits would: 💥Boost deficits $𝟏.𝟔-$𝟏.𝟖 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 💥Advance Medicare 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 6 years & 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞 its shortfall 💥Advance Social Security insolvency & increase its shortfall 𝟐𝟓% crfb.org/blogs/donald-t…

1. Don’t give up. Overcome, dear, overcome. 2. Ask interesting questions. These two pieces of advice from Olivia S. Mitchell struck a chord with me during our @WhartonKnows "What I've Learned" conversation: whr.tn/4cfhYXz Reminders that the easiest path is not always best!

For anyone interested in retirement security, it's REALLY important to understand baseline facts -- such as, is old-age poverty rising or falling? If we can't that right we've got real problems.

My latest in the The Wall Street Journal : Companies are encouraging departing employees to leave their #retirement savings in the employer plan. How to decide? wsj.com/personal-finan… via The Wall Street Journal

Tax Policy Center estimates show that excluding Social Security benefits from taxation would cause Medicare hospital insurance and Social Security to become insolvent faster, while benefitting few low-income households. tpc.io/4c8QKld

Congratulations to Population Aging Research Center at Penn Research Associate Olivia S. Mitchell appeared on the Forbes 50 Over 50 list this month! forbes.com/sites/maggiemc…

Prof. Olivia S. Mitchell was named to Forbes’ #ForbesOver50 Investment list in recognition of her four decades’ worth of research into retirement, pensions, and financial literacy. Read about the honor and her thoughts on the future of retirement plannng: whr.tn/46HALcG

Delighted to be a Forbes 50 Over 50: Investment awardee! (forbes.com)

Learn why the #SocialSecurity solvency crisis became inevitable. thehill.com/opinion/financ…

Excited to share our latest JAMA Network study which shows that shifting #healthcare from hospitals to outpatient centers or home settings could save the US healthcare system $113B to $147B annually without compromising clinical outcomes⬇️ jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

In case you missed it, I also wrote a piece, sharing ideas for classroom exercises incorporating AI: ggd.world/p/embracing-ai… And on assessments: ggd.world/p/how-should-a…

Follow the Ultrageezer running the Unreasonable East 200M race starting Tuesday (Australia time): shorturl.at/540SR

Just out: Our new study on "A Competing Risks Analysis of Older Americans’ #Poverty Entry and Exit Patterns in the #HealthandRetirement Study" by Robert L. Clark, Annamaria Lusardi , and@OS_Mitchell, on #paneldata #attritionbias. ssa.gov/policy/docs/ss…

Why have mortgage rates fallen & what does it mean for the future? Prof. @LuLiu_Fin spoke with @ABCNews to lead this week's The Wharton School faculty in the news roundup. Swipe for... 1️⃣ Liu on mortgage rates 2️⃣ @HamsaBastani on AI 3️⃣ Cait Lamberton on inflation 4️⃣ @FaderP on marketing

Some guidance on how to manage your 401K #nestegg, from PennPSC's Olivia S. Mitchell in the The Wall Street Journal READ HERE: on.wsj.com/3WZSZms

.The Wharton School's PRC held their annual symposium, hosted by Olivia S. Mitchell and Nikolai Roussanov, where experts covered behavioral factors that impact retirement readiness, including traits like conscientiousness, community, education, age, and gender: whr.tn/4fQWYJH

Around an approval discontinuity, Federal Disaster Loans causally reduces severe financial distress, decreasing bankruptcy filings by 61 percent in the 3 years after the disaster, from Benjamin Collier, Daniel A. Hartley, Ben Keys, and Jing Xian Ng nber.org/papers/w32845

Chocolate and Fizzy Drinks to Live Past 110: nytimes.com/2024/08/21/art…

Interested in growing your retirement wealth? Team Scientist Olivia S. Mitchell shares behavioral strategies to incentivize saving in this Knowledge at Wharton article: whr.tn/3zLgkiP

The call for papers is now open. Be a part of (longevity) history. rclr.nl/events/gompert…