Brookings Podcast: Helping the Displaced: A Long Road Home

As humanitarian crises continue to erupt across the globe, international aid organizations are working to provide for the basic needs of civilians impacted by war, famine, political unrest and natural disasters. Senior Fellow Elizabeth Ferris describes the types of aid these organizations provide over both the short and long term, and the difficulties they sometimes face when governments use this aid as a political tool to reward supporters and punish opponents. View the podcast.

Health Care major Concern in Delaying Retirement

From the Sloan Center on Aging & Work: According to the 2010 Towers Watson retirement attitudes survey,health care coverage and costs are the most-cited reasons for delayed retirement, especially among older workers. Read more...

Harvard report finds housing 'affordability crisis'

From the Boston Globe: Rent and utility costs have risen faster than incomes in recent years, pushing the number of renters who must spend more than half their monthly income on housing to record levels, according to a report by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. The study, released yesterday, described an “affordability crisis’’ worsened by the recent recession, which eroded family incomes even as record foreclosures pushed more people into the rental market, driving up prices. Read more...