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March 2013
This presentation, given at RAISE Florida Network's 2013 First Quarter Annual Meeting, discusses strategies for identifying and engaging legislators in order to promote an asset-building agenda.
January 2013
Dr. Wilhelmina Leigh spoke on the whys and hows of Social Security modernization at the National Academy of Social Insurance's 25th Annual Policy Research Conference on January 31, 2013.
More presentations, videos, and other conference materials can be found on the NASI website.
July 2012
This slide show discusses how Social Security benefits truly help those who receive them. Presented at a National Academy of Social Insurance 2012 Summer Academy session entitled Demystifying Social Security on July 11, 2012.
February 2011
Although many African Americans depend on Social Security benefits to meet their basic needs, the value of the program to this group is often debated and sometimes misrepresented or discounted. At a time when the nation is seeking to put its financial house in order and concurrently considering reforms to guarantee the future solvency and sustainability of Social Security, the Joint Center for...
January 2010
African Americans are more likely than whites to expect that Social Security will be their major source of income during retirement. Th is was true in both 1998 (35 percent of African Americans versus 17 percent of whites) and 2009 (37 percent of African Americans versus 27 percent of whites). African Americans also are more likely than whites to support the Social Security system as currently...
News
May 2013
Massive cuts are being proposed which will impact the way in which Social Security and Medicaid are allocated in the United States. The Obama administration has floated a plan known as chained Consumer Price Index (CPI) along with a goal of trimming healthcare funding for the poor and elderly by $400 billion.
These efforts are purportedly connected with the need to trim the federal budget...
December 2011
In its deliberations to develop a plan to reduce the federal deficit by more than a trillion dollars over the next decade, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction considered a proposal to calculate cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) in all government programs using the Chained Consumer Price Index-Urban (C-CPI-U), rather than the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U).
Implementing this proposal...
October 2011
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The National Council of La Raza issued the following news release:
As the United States transitions to a "majority-minority" population over the next three decades, prominent health and income security groups say the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction and other members of Congress must take into account how changes to Social Security, Medicare, and...
October 2011
As the United States transitions to a “majority-minority” population over the next three decades, Social Security must be modernized to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse and economically insecure workforce, according to a report released today by the Commission to Modernize Social Security, made up of national policy experts representing African American, Asian American,...
Video
October 2011
Dr. Wilhelmina Leigh speaks at an event entitled The Super Committee and Social Security, held by the National Academy of Social Insurance on September 16, 2011.
Slides from her presentation can be found here.
Archived Research
July 1, 2007
The Old Age, Survivors, and Disability (OASDI) program of the Social Security Administration helps meet the needs of persons who have retired (Old Age), dependents of persons who are deceased (Survivors), and persons who have become disabled, as well as their dependents (Disability). Although the Social Security system consists of these three components, when system reforms are discussed, the...
April 1, 2007
Between 1997 and 2005, numerous polls were conducted to assess the views of the U.S. population about savings behavior, expected sources of retirement income, and the status of the Social Security system. This report examines findings from these polls for African Americans, white Americans, and persons of all races (combined) and makes comparisons across racial/ethnic groups as data allow. The...
June 1, 2006
Income is the personal characteristic most often thought to be associated with differences in knowledge, expectations, and opinions about Social Security and wealth. For example, one would hypothesize that individuals with low incomes would be more likely than those with high incomes to (1) expect Social Security to be their major source of retirement income, (2) be less likely to own stocks or...
June 1, 2006
Well-publicized and much-discussed potential insolvency of the Social Security Trust Fund concerns African Americans ages 51-64 much more than it does younger African Americans. is may be tied to the fact that many 51- to 64-year-olds have not accumulated adequate personal savings and investments and expect to rely upon Social Security as a major source of retirement income. About one-third (35...
June 1, 2006
Half of African Americans ages 18-25 consider themselves to be well-informed about the Social Security system. When compared to their older counterparts, however, these youngest African American adults have more correct information about the big-picture impacts of the Social Security system than about various details of the system's operations, e.g., age(s) at which one becomes eligible, how...
June 1, 2006
African American women share with other women and with African American men characteristics that shape their beneficiary status under the Social Security system, as well as their views of the retirement income program. Like other women, African American women live more years than African American men and thus receive retirement benefits from Social Security for a longer period than their male...
