The social media company says it's working to resolve concerns that the policy will silence countless activists, particularly undocumented people decrying the Trump administration.
In her new book, political scientist Suzanne Mettler asks: How can the U.S. government provide so much, yet still be the object of such derision?
Very few surveys ask people if they're transgender. One economist managed to mine American government data for clues to the transgender American experience over the last seven decades.
The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.
A new study finds unauthorized immigrants create a huge surplus in Medicare by contributing to payroll taxes, but not withdrawing benefits.
Can the lessons of small-town North Dakota be applied to the big city?
Millions of Californians—like many tens of millions throughout the country—lack adequate pension security to sustain them after their work lives end.
Updates to past Pacific Standard print stories.
After signing up for coverage and disclosing they were smokers, about 100 New Hampshire consumers, including Terry Wetherby, find their new Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield policies canceled because they were charged incorrect “non-smoker” rates.
Updates to past Pacific Standard print stories.
Thanks to decades of stagnant wages and the Great Recession, more than half of American working-class households are at risk of being unable to sustain their standard of living past retirement. Duncan Black is trying to change that.
More than social security, pension, and personal savings, those currently entering retirement fear the cost of health care, according to a new survey.
Passports, park admissions and poo are among Pacific Standard's list of 10 things that will be affected if the budget-less U.S. government shuts down this weekend.
Early retirement, bah! The people who measure our life spans say Social Security should be less something that kicks in at 65 and more something Americans tap for, say, their last 20 years.
Among non-politicians, there's remarkable unanimity on what areas of the Social Security system need fixing and what techniques are likely to work best. Second in a three-part series.
From past debates on privatization to new proposals to tap benefits in midlife and shifting the federal focus from the old to the young, experts of various stripes find fertile ground in debating the future of the program.
In the first of a three-part series on that 'third rail' of American politics, our Tom Jacobs examines the history of the program.
The editor of Public Policy & Aging Report asks if tax regimes set up when the words 'elderly' and 'poor' were nearly synonymous may have outlived their good intentions.
A host of meaningful stories from Miller-McCune.com's first full year on the Web.
Miller-McCune's experts offer solutions to problems that were under-discussed during the presidential campaign.
Two new proposals look to greatly increase the number of people who have adequate retirement plans, one by encouraging workers to save and the other by requiring them to.
Surprisingly, the idea of privatizing Social Security is back as part of the 2008 presidential race — as is the false claim that the system is heading for bankruptcy.
Hey, man, this baby boomer retirement thing ain't that big a deal. OK?