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Entitlement Now: A Policymaker’s Game Plan to Social Security Reform

If you are 52 years old or younger, you might want to store money under your mattress. A bleak 2019 report by the Social Security Board of Trustees found retirement funds on a path to depletion by 2035, forcing Congressional lawmakers to make swift and bold decisions on the fate of the nearly $3.0 trillion …

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Healthy Incentives Pilot: How A Massachusetts Health Program Pays Participants to Eat Well

As obesity-related illnesses are speculated to strain up to one-fifth of the national healthcare expenditure, federal agencies have spent decades embarked to reform the American diet through social and economic intervention. Among low-income consumers, the risk is exacerbated by tight budget constraints favoring cheap, high-calorie foods. But what if you can get paid to eat …

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