Fact Sheets

• National Elder Economic Security Initiative (April 2011)
• Strengthening Social Security (Winter 2011)

 

Other Resources

• Doing Without Series (Spring 2012)
• Elder Action Guide (March 2011)
• Comparison of the WOW Elder Economic Security Standard Index (Elder Index), the Official Federal Poverty Thresholds/Level and the New Federal Supplemental Poverty Measure (November 2011)
• Older Americans Act Recommendations (March 2011)
• A Blueprint for Increasing the Economic Security of Older Adults: Recommendations for the Older Americans Act (National Council on Aging, March 2011)
• WOW Testimony before the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (June 2010)

• Testimony to the US Administration on Aging on the Older Americans Act Reauthorization (February 2010)

• Bringing the National Elder Economic Security Initiative to Scale: Preliminary Implementation Lessons Report - Executive Summary and Summary of Lessons Learned (April 2009)
• Economic Security Across Generations: Background, Analysis, and Policy Recommendations - A White Paper (2008)

 

Press

• Threats to Social Security, WBAI Radio in New York (mp3) (August 2011)
• Social Security: Endangered on Its 76th Birthday, Kansas City infoZine (August 2011)
• Social Security: Endangered on its 76th Birthday, Institute for Public Accuracy (August 2011)
• Social security "chained CPI" proposal threatens economic security, The Hill's Congress Blog (July 2011)
• WOW and Leadership Council of Aging Organizations Call on Executive and Congressional Leadership to Address Deficit (July 2011)
• Living on the Edge, AARP Magazine (March/April 2010)
• WOW Press Releases