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Benjamin Glasner on President Trump's Proposal to Create Private-Sector Retirement Accounts

Washington Journal interview on retirement-plan access, the gaps in the current system, and the policy logic behind expanding portable retirement accounts for workers without employer coverage.

More than half of U.S. workers don't have access to employer-sponsored retirement plan: Study

Live CBS News segment on retirement-plan access, regional disparities, and the long-run consequences of arriving at retirement age with little or no savings.

How to End Low Wage Work—Forever

Long-form conversation with Katie Gatti Tassin about low-wage work, wage subsidies, policy targeting, and the logic behind the 80-80 proposal.

Economist Ben Glasner on 'The Great Transfer-mation' (and it's NOT great!)

Ross Kaminsky interview on The Great "Transfer"-mation, county-level transfer dependence, and what the report implies about the changing economic base of many U.S. communities.

New Project Looks to Build Consensus on State of American Worker

Interview on the American Worker Project, labor-market perception versus measurement, productivity growth, housing costs, and the policy levers that matter most for worker outcomes.

Is that sand in your keyboard? Billions of income dollars moved to South Florida

Quoted on IRS-based income migration, the scale of adjusted-gross-income flows into Florida, and why South Florida gained such a large share of pandemic-era taxable income.

Half of Americans lack access to a retirement plan. Here are the worst states.

Quoted on the geography of retirement-plan access, the barriers facing low-wage workers, and why states with weak coverage are exposed to higher rates of elderly poverty over time.

A battle over the future of US retirement is playing out in Pennsylvania as the election looms

Quoted on why the most transfer-reliant counties tend to be older, poorer, and more rural, and how retirement dependence shapes local political economy.

Social Security is telling its staff that customer service is about to get a lot worse

Quoted on how payment delays and weaker service capacity would fall hardest on retirees with low incomes, limited savings, or less room to absorb administrative shocks.

The plight of college-educated men shows where the job market is going

Quoted on why the labor market was softening more quickly for men in white-collar occupations and what that implied about the broader direction of hiring demand.

The death of the 30-something homebuyer was greatly exaggerated

Quoted on homeownership, housing scarcity, and why affordability pressures depend less on demographics alone than on whether the country builds enough homes where people want to live.

Trump floats new retirement benefit for 54 million workers

Cites EIG research on the number of workers without workplace retirement benefits and the policy case for expanding access.

What to Know About Trump's New Retirement Plan Idea

Uses EIG's retirement-access research to frame the size of the coverage gap and the design logic behind a new portable-account proposal.

Trump signs order expanding access to retirement accounts

Credits EIG's estimate of workers without employer-based retirement plans and links the policy debate to the underlying coverage gap.

Americans Are More Reliant Than Ever on Government Aid

Uses The Great "Transfer"-mation to document the growth of government transfer income as a central component of many local economies.

Americans Grow Increasingly Dependent on Government Payments

Cites EIG's county-level transfer dependence data and names Ben as one of the report's authors.

Apartment Development in Opportunity Zones May Matter for Inflation

Uses the housing-supply study's core empirical finding to connect Opportunity Zones to apartment production and inflation pressures.

Opportunity Zones: New and Improved?

Summarizes the study's findings and uses them to assess how a revised Opportunity Zones framework could affect housing development.

Are you better off today? A question for voters as Biden, Trump debate

Draws on The American Worker to explain why headline macroeconomic strength did not map cleanly onto how many workers felt about the economy.

The case against the doom-and-gloom view for American workers

Uses The American Worker to argue that worker discontent can coexist with strong fundamentals, and that the key gap is often between aggregate performance and distributional experience.