The debate about Medicare’s future takes many forms. It is often linked to questions about financing – often couched in terms of the burdens on current and future taxpayers and the need to cut benefits. Are the current levels of benefits affordable over time? A set of issue briefs by ...
Sixty-five has long been a benchmark age for public programs such as Social Security and Medicare, but many experts question whether it should be changed for today's aging society. In this video interview, Marilyn Moon, AIR Institute Fellow and director of AIR's Center on Aging, explains whether 65 is still ...
Education policy experts Laura Hamilton and Orrin Murray analyze scholarly information and historical context about DARPA, ARPA-E, and ARPA-H and apply that learning to education research and its contexts, with the goal of informing the design and implementation of a National Center for Advanced Development in Education. ...
This spotlight takes a look at the history of Title I, how the program has changed over time, and how it affects children, schools, families and education policy. Experts weigh in on the program's past and future in interviews, briefs, and blogs.
With 10,000 Baby Boomers turning 65 each day, policy makers are facing the following critical questions about how to meet the requirements of an aging society. This brief is the first in a two-part series about policies and programs that provide resources and services for aging in place.
The Center on Aging at AIR held a kick-off conference, which focused on how researchers can engage in the policymaking process, and encouraged participants to think creatively, constructively, and in concert. Themes discussed were the challenges faced by lower-income workers and the importance of Medicare to seniors. ...
In California, the demand for full-day, full-year early care and education programs has grown over time due to changing family needs. The purpose of this policy brief is specifically to address the financing issues involved in providing full-day, full-year preschool programs.
As American Baby Boomers retire and age, questions about how to deliver long-term care efficiently and control health care costs grow more important with each projected increase in health care needs. This brief examines recent research on both costs and outcomes, exposes fault lines in previous approaches to assessing consumer ...
How do the condition, design, and use of facilities affect student achievement, teacher quality, teacher retention, and community support? In this blog post, Mark Schneider notes that this is a critical issue that too few understand, and suggests we need to know much more about the condition of our school ...
Learning more about the lifelong shadow of early life experiences is a challenge that can’t be met without longitudinal data. AIR and the University of Southern California are mining Project Talent's data to identify risk and protective factors for differential outcomes at older ages, to learn about the life trajectories ...