The Trump administration has directed agencies to stop estimating the economic impact of climate change when developing policies and regulations. By Lisa Friedman The White House has ordered federal ...
Over the past four years, the Biden Administration relied extensively on integrated assessment models (IAMs) to quantify the economic effects of carbon-dioxide emissions via a construct known as the ...
A hand holds fragments of coal, a major source of fossil fuel emissions. (Getty) The social cost of carbon — an important figure that global policymakers use to analyze the benefits of climate and ...
As the Social Security Administration's retirement trust fund is bound to become insolvent in under a decade, it proposes to slash benefits for some by $100 ...
The annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is intended to help retirees deal with inflation. However, it uses a metric that some feel doesn't fully capture retirees' increased costs. A lot has ...
A recent reduction in tax income has accelerated the timeline to deplete the Social Security trust fund. Current law requires Social Security to cut benefit payments if the trust is depleted. This ...