http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Tue, 21 May 2013 15:55:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/press/release_feb12.shtml http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/press/release_feb12.shtml#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:28:36 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=25816 Black and Latino seniors face tougher times in retirement than American seniors as a whole, says a new research brief based on U.S. census data. Retirees of color, especially Blacks and Latinos, "rely more heavily on Social Security and have less access to other types of retirement income than their white counterparts,” says study author Nari Rhee of the Center for Labor Research and Education.]]> http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/press/release_feb12.shtml/feed/ 0 http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/01/4091356/raising-the-retirement-age-increases.html http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/01/4091356/raising-the-retirement-age-increases.html#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:52:35 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=21544 Raising the retirement age may seem sensible, given rising life expectancy. But many working-class families and African Americans may not live to retirement age, "making these proposals profoundly unfair," Ken Jacobs and Nari Rhee, of the UC Berkeley Labor Center, write in the Sacramento Bee. ]]> http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/01/4091356/raising-the-retirement-age-increases.html/feed/ 0