News Items

News Items

News Items is a curated selection of news articles, commentaries, analyses, essays, and research reports that I find noteworthy or significant (or sometimes both). Each item is typically 2 to 3 sentences in length.

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  • Feb 21, 2023 | newsitems.substack.com | Mary Walsh |John Ellis

    Sharen its face, the report described new ways to make the U.S. income and poverty statistics more accurate. Between the lines, it confirmed what some economists have been arguing for decades: that key Census data undercount the retirement income of older Americans, by hundreds of billions of dollars a year. American seniors, as a group, turn out to be a lot better off than we thought. That doesn’t mean there are no elderly living in poverty, of course; millions do.

  • Feb 7, 2023 | newsitems.substack.com | Mary Williams Walsh

  • Jan 28, 2023 | newsitems.substack.com | Mary Williams Walsh

  • Feb 4, 2020 | newsitems.substack.com | Susannah Cahalan