June 2024
28Jun

LGBTQ+ workers are paid 16% less than their peers, study finds

While “a record number of non-LGBTQ Americans support equal rights for the LGBTQ community,” according to a 2023 study from GLAAD, workers who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community still face workplace discrimination and a wage gap, a new study has found. The majority (63%) of the 2,000 LGBTQ+ workers surveyed by writing platform EduBirdie said they have been discriminated against in the workplace and 45% said they have been passed over for a promotion due to their identity. These...

June 28, 2024
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26Jun

El 52% de los adultos en México tiene algún tipo de ahorro: ENSAFI

En México, poco más de la mitad de los adultos declara tener algún tipo de ahorro y el 36% de ellos cuenta con algún tipo de deuda. Pese a que casi la mitad de los mexicanos ahorra, el 60% de ellos cuenta con ahorros equivalentes al valor de apenas una quincena de su salario actual o previo. En México poco más de la mitad (52.0%) de los adultos tiene algún tipo de ahorro, ya sea en instituciones bancarias y financieras...

June 26, 2024
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21Jun

México. Los pendientes de salud e inclusión LGBT+ que AMLO le deja a Sheinbaum

Organizaciones sociales de México ponen encima de la mesa presidencial, que ocupará Claudia Sheinbaum a partir de octubre, la necesidad de blindar una sanidad “sin discriminación” y una educación “incluyente” a favor de la comunidad LGBT+, los pendientes del mandato de Andrés Manuel López Obrador. “Garantizar el acceso y la atención a la salud, en cuestiones particulares de las personas LGBT+, fue un gran pendiente”, advierte la cosecretaria de la Asociación Internacional de Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales, Trans e Intersex para...

June 21, 2024
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21Jun

Providing inclusive services and care for LGBT people

By National LGBT health education center A visit to a health care facility can make people nervous for any number of reasons. Some people may be uncomfortable revealing sensitive information to health care professionals who need it to provide certain services. Others find it difficult to talk about private health concerns. Creating an environment in which these conversations are more comfortable for the patient is an important goal for all health care staff. Because health care is for everyone, we...

June 21, 2024
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21Jun

LGBT Retirement Preparations Amid Social Progress

By Catherine Collinson, Executive Director, Aegon Center for Longevity and Retirement; CEO and President, Transamerica Institute and Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies LGBT: Retirement Preparations Amid Social Progress is a collaboration between Aegon Center for Longevity and Retirement, and nonprofits Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies® (US), and Instituto de Longevidade Mongeral Aegon (Brazil). The report focuses on the retirement aspirations and plans among the LGBT community, and highlights findings from LGBT survey respondents from nine of the 15 surveyed countries...

June 21, 2024
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April 2024
12Apr

The Race/Ethnicity Gap in Retirement Plan Participation: More than Just Demographics

By David Blanchett American companies have been actively shifting away from defined benefit (DB) plans towards defined contribution (DC) plans for decades. This shift places more burden on workers to make decisions like whether to participate in the retirement plan, how much to save, and how to invest those savings. This analysis explores how participation in a workforce retirement plan varies by race and ethnicity leveraging data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) to the 2023 Current Population...

April 12, 2024
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12Apr

Progress and priorities: reviewing sustainability in key pension systems

Pension funds are long-term investors and their ability to generate long-term returns relies on the performance of the markets and economies in which they invest. Because sustainability factors such as climate change and biodiversity loss threaten the performance of the markets and economies on which they rely for financial returns, pension funds have a responsibility to consider whether sustainability-related risks will inhibit their ability to protect long-term value and provide an adequate pension to their members or beneficiaries. Accordingly,...

April 12, 2024
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12Apr

Retirement insecurity 2024 americans’ views of retirement

By Dan Doonan & Kelly Kenneally T he ground is shifting when it comes to retirement. Most Americans are experiencing increased financial pressures "I am scared to be broke." Dream. Eighty-three percent of Americans say that all workers should have a pension so they can be and low levels of retirement savings. Amid growing concerns about Americans’ retirement readiness, policymakers recently enacted measures to help address the grave savings shortfall. On the federal level, Congress passed important retirement legislation in...

April 12, 2024
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12Apr

Latent Cumulative Disadvantage: US Immigrants’ Reversed Economic Assimilation in Later Life

By Leafia Z Ye One of the most salient findings in research on immigration has been that immigrants experience substantial economic mobility as they accumulate more years in the host-society labor force and eventually approach earnings parity with their native-born counterparts. However, we do not know whether this progress is sustained in retirement. In this paper, I develop a framework of Latent Cumulative (Dis)advantage and hypothesize that even as immigrants are approaching parity with the native-born in terms of current...

April 12, 2024
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March 2024
21Mar

Financiamiento de las pensiones: Escenarios sobre su carga fiscal a 2030

Por Alejandra Macias Sánchez (CIEP) La presente investigación analiza el financiamiento público de las pensiones y realiza escenarios de proyecciones de gasto, con base en los cambios que se proponen y prometen. Primero, se presenta la composición del gasto público destinado a pensiones. Posteriormente, se explican las iniciativas de reforma y las propuestas para la siguiente administración. Finalmente, se muestran las proyecciones de las pensiones a 2030 y los riesgos de seguir aumentando este gasto. Lee el reporte completo aquí

March 21, 2024
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