Workers who are 55 and older are increasingly forced to endure onerous, even dangerous jobs that do not provide the pay and benefits needed to allow them to retire. The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis hosted a virtual event shining a light on this problem and outlining policy recommendations that would alleviate the plight of older workers.
The panel featured a discussion of the findings of SCEPA and EPI’s joint chartbook on older workers and retirement: www.epi.org/publication/older...
and a new report by EPI titled, "Many older workers have difficult jobs that put them at risk: Working longer is not a viable solution to the retirement crisis::
www.epi.org/publication/older....
The panelists included:
Rep. Don Beyer, Congressman, Virginia’s 8th District
Siavash Radpour, Associate Research Director, ReLab at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis
Monique Morrissey, Economist, Economic Policy Institute
The webinar was moderated by:
Teresa Ghilarducci, Bernard L. and Irene Schwartz Professor of Economics and Director, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis