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Supporting and convening demographic research across CUNY and fostering connections among population researchers in the NYC metro area and beyond.
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📚 New issue alert! Generations Journal Fall 2025 examines Social Security's legacy and the urgent need for continued policy attention to those left behind from its promise. Guest edited by Teresa Ghilarducci, Ruth K. Finkelstein & Na Yin. generations.asaging.org/publications...
Transformative Approaches to Social Security Benefits - ASA Generations
Generations Journal, vol. 49, no. 3 (Fall 2025)
generations.asaging.org
📢 Join us for the Final CIDR Seminar of the Fall Session!
Title: Low Fertility and Pronatalism in the U.S.
Speaker: Dr. Karen Guzzo
🗓 Date: Friday, December 12
🕐 Time: 1:00–2:30 PM EST
📍 Location: Online via Zoom
🔗 Register here: baruch.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#CIDRSeminars #demographicresearch
November 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
🌡️ New research highlights the long-term risks to extreme heat exposure at work. At age 55, 27% of heat-exposed workers report health limits their ability to work vs 19% in climate-controlled jobs. Immigrant, Black, and Latino workers are most at risk.
generations.asaging.org/burn-out-rei...
Burn Out Reimagined: Extreme Heat, Work Disability, and Sociodemographic Disparities in America - ASA Generations
As temperatures rise and our labor force ages, protecting workers from extreme heat on the job becomes crucial.
generations.asaging.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
When workers become disabled, unmet home-care needs are widespread. Beneficiaries receive help for fewer than 1/2 of the ADL difficulties reported—and care needs fluctuate constantly. Examining disability benefits, caregiving and household economic security. generations.asaging.org/contending-w...
Contending With Home Care Needs After a Work Disability - ASA Generations
Who tends to become disabled, what benefits are available for caregiving, and how might benefits impact household income long-term?
generations.asaging.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Why don't we know the true size of the direct care workforce? New research note explores how movement between formal and informal work undermines retirement security for direct care workers—87% women, 61% people of color—and limits effective policy solutions. generations.asaging.org/the-complex-...
The Complex Impact of ‘On’ and ‘Off the Books’ Work - ASA Generations
Estimating what we miss about direct care workers’ employment, earnings, and retirement savings.
generations.asaging.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
What happens when the One Big Beautiful Bill Act takes effect? CUNY researchers simulate the impact on NY poverty of major health insurance provisions—before any state/local policy response.  Critical reading on what adjustments are needed to prevent rising poverty: robinhood.org/reports/poli...
Policy Report: Impacts of federal health insurance policy changes
This Robin Hood-funded report from CUNY analyzes how federal policy changes around health insurance provisions may impact poverty in New York.
robinhood.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
📚 New issue alert! Generations Journal Fall 2025 examines Social Security's legacy and the urgent need for continued policy attention to those left behind from its promise. Guest edited by Teresa Ghilarducci, Ruth K. Finkelstein & Na Yin. generations.asaging.org/publications...
Transformative Approaches to Social Security Benefits - ASA Generations
Generations Journal, vol. 49, no. 3 (Fall 2025)
generations.asaging.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM