Public Policy Institute

This report details how policymakers and other stakeholders can improve the design of emergency savings policies, strengthen workplace short-term savings programs, and target policies that enhance household financial well-being and racial equity.

This Spotlight explores how plans develop pharmacy networks, what the shift to preferred pharmacy networks means for older adults’ cost sharing, whether current standards of network accountability are sufficient, and steps that policymakers can take to ensure that pharmacy networks continue to work for older adults.

In this Insight, we broadly explore the issue of high health care costs, examine the impact on midlife adults with private coverage—including those with employer-sponsored and nongroup (individual) health insurance—and consider key solutions to begin addressing the cost burden on this population.

This paper provides a comprehensive blueprint for the development of a robust national aging plan to foster the well-being, quality of life, and dignity of older Americans now and for future generations. Importantly, aging itself is not a challenge; being unprepared for aging is.

This Fact Sheet describes selected characteristics of households with adults ages 50 and older as well as individuals ages 50 and older who participated in SNAP in FY 2022 and the benefits they received.

This Spotlight paper breaks down the Older Americans Act (OAA) mission, explains its benefits in detail, and provides an in-depth look at how needed increased funding could be allocated to better support nutrition and caregiver support services.