Fiscal lifelines for at-risk populations: What journalists and policymakers need to know

Join The Journalist’s Resource and Econofact on Oct. 5 at noon ET for a webinar that will cover issues related to Medicaid, Social Security, and the special tax treatment of tips and overtime income. 

You’ll come away with answers to questions like:

• What role does Medicaid play in supporting lower-income Americans?
• Why does Medicaid have a low cost per person but is expensive overall?
• Who depends upon Social Security benefits?
• What are the fiscal challenges, and possible solutions, for Social Security?
• What are the complexities involved in differential treatment of tips and overtime income?
• Who benefits from breaks on taxes on tips and overtime income?

The webinar will be recorded and posted on the Shorenstein Center YouTube page.

Submit questions for the panelists when you register, or during the webinar.

You’ll hear from:

• Mark Shepard, a professor at Harvard Kennedy School of Government who studies health care markets, with topics at the intersection of health, industrial organization and public economics.

• Gopi Shah Goda, director of the Retirement Security Project at the Brookings Institution.

•  Bill Gentry, the Carl Van Duyne Professor of Economics at Williams College.

Clark Merrefield, senior editor at The Journalist’s Resource, will host the hour.

Michael Klein, the William L. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs and founder of Econofact, will moderate the discussion.

EconoFact Explainers that serve as background reading include Understanding the Medicaid Program by Shepard, The Challenges Facing Social Security by Shah Goda, and Special Income Tax Treatment of Tip and Overtime Income by Gentry.