@karthikmanickam
"The only good economist is a self-hating economist." Dalit scholar PhD-ing in Economics at The New School for Social Research, New York | Research Fellow at SCEPA | Political Economy, Development and Labour Personal Account
For many Americans, “retirement” accounts aren’t for retirement -- they’re emergency lifelines. Evidence shows workers are draining 401(k)s to cover basic needs, sacrificing future security. We need retirement reform.
@forbes.com
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Really excited to chair this incredibly important discussion as part of the SAPE series this Wednesday 10 Dec at 1PM ET/11:30pm IST!
New SCEPA Research: Most Americans still don’t have enough to retire - and the gap is growing.
Our latest Tracking the Retirement Crisis report breaks down the numbers and what it means for the future.
www.economicpolicyresearch.org/research/mos...
Prof. Sanjay Reddy's letter in the FT questions proposals for “balanced trade” in a revised US-Mexico-Canada deal. Increasing U.S. producers’ input costs would hurt competitiveness, not help workers. And labour/enviro standards deserve direct attention.
www.ft.com/content/56f2...
Honored to join Bloomberg TV Wall Street Week to discuss the urgent need to strengthen America’s retirement system. Other countries are taking meaningful steps - and there is a lot we can learn to ensure workers retire with dignity and security.
Full segment: www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
private equity firms extract, they do not 'invest'
who do they extract from? workers, patients, children in childcare centers they buy..
disgusted by this and in no way surprised
Millions of Americans care for aging loved ones — but who cares for them? Our piece explores how unpaid caregivers manage retirement and financial strain, and why the U.S. needs to investment in long-term care.
@jessforden.bsky.social @erinsimmons.bsky.social
generations.asaging.org/caregiving-a...
Making my way through this fantastic book, and requested a copy be bought by The New School's library! Would love to see a talk happen at The New School soon also!
New easy-to-read publication out: Preliminary findings from mixed methods work on student debt and retirement, conducted by myself and @erinsimmons.bsky.social under @tghilarducci.bsky.social 's team at @scepa-economics.bsky.social and @nssrnews.bsky.social
generations.asaging.org/student-debt...
The SCEPA team is so proud to have work featured in the latest edition of Generations Journal, "Transformative Approaches to Social Security Benefits" on who Social Security leaves behind and why that must change. This is a call for equity, evidence & action.
generations.asaging.org/publications...
Really important piece by @tghilarducci.bsky.social on the politicisation of the SSA!
How do we make sense of the many transitions across employment arrangements in India’s labour market?
New in World Development, @rosaabraham.bsky.social & I study the trajectories that characterise Indian labour market, & identify 7 dominant ones. What do they look like? 🧵
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How Your Neighborhood Voted in the NYC Mayoral Election www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/m...
Fantastic data tool by a great set of journalists!
Is it tho???
🤔🤔🤔🤔
www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/m...
We stand by our use of relative poverty measures—an international standard vital for assessing poverty in wealthy nations. They highlight the struggles older Americans face that absolute metrics miss; crucial for a fair discussion on elder poverty.
www.economicpolicyresearch.org/resource-lib...
Resharing this article on changes that have been made to the SSA in the first quarter of the year, in light of today's Supreme Court ruling on DOGE access to SSA data.
www.economicpolicyresearch.org/resource-lib...
Two things the senate can do right now to save Social Security
Really exciting volume of HET articles edited by @alexmthomas.bsky.social for the Review of Development and Change!
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Really important series on older Americans and debt, featuring a small soundbite by yours truly!
SCEPA published a new policy note, "America’s Retirement Crisis Hits a Breaking Point" as part of our "Tracking the Retirement Crisis" series.
www.economicpolicyresearch.org/resource-lib...
Really important series by the SCEPA team documenting the timeline and the extent of changes made to the Social Security Administration in the first quarter of 2025, and what its implications could be for benefits payments!
#SSA #SocialSecurity #Retirement #Economics
tinyurl.com/4v3mch58
@karthikmanickam.bsky.social & I are researching @SCEPA the impact of student debt on retirement & compiling NYC resources for people seeking support!
If you know great community orgs/center/person doing this work, esp with older NYers, pls share!
#SocialSecurity #NYC #Debt #StudentDebt #retirement
Fantastic new paper by @prachibansal.bsky.social and co that discusses the distributional effects of inflation volatility in India!
Former SSA Economist David Weaver writes about how DOGE attacks on federal workforce disproportionately impact veterans.
www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/202...
The ever-excellent Sanjay Reddy on why we all need to care about the efforts to dismantle academic freedom in US universities
indianexpress.com/article/opin...
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
Kalecki (1943): Political Aspects of Full Employment
Reads like a comment on the great reversal in common sense on fiscal policy among German economists
Social Security clawed back benefits from a very alive "dead" man. This could be a random error, but in the first Trump administration these purges were anything but random. Here's what Daniel Costa and I wrote at the time. www.epi.org/blog/cleanin...
TNS Economist Rick McGahey quoted in the @nytimes.com “This is what authoritarians do — manipulate public policy and control it with personal decisions and seemingly idiosyncratic decisions, often to get or push for political support in return.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/b...
@joshbivens-econ.bsky.social channeling @delong in 2022: If Tesla sold all the cars bought in the US by the end of the next decade & made a per-car profit 10x that of GM, Ford & Fiat-Chrysler then that would be enough to justify its current stock valuation. www.epi.org/publication/...
