CFS RDRC Releases Research and Training Opportunities

The Center for Financial Security Retirement and Disability Research Center (CFS RDRC) is excited to announce four different calls for proposals. Our training program offers many competitive funding opportunities. While deadlines may be extended in some cases, the deadline for priority consideration is February 3, 2022. Applicants may apply to multiple opportunities; simply complete an … Continue reading CFS RDRC Releases Research and Training Opportunities

Annual Junior Scholars Intensive Training Sees Success

2021 JSIT Scholars Cohort For a week in June 2021, the Center for Financial Security (CFS)—in collaboration with Howard University’s Center on Race and Wealth—held the annual summer workshop of Junior Scholar Intensive Training (JSIT) program. JSTI is an intensive training program for emerging researchers, and made possible with funding from the Retirement and Disability … Continue reading Annual Junior Scholars Intensive Training Sees Success

CFS RDRC Awarded Fourth Year of Funding to Support Research on Financial Vulnerability

U.S. Social Security Administration approves 13 major research projects, investigating a range of social insurance topics, including the Child Tax Credit, the geography of long-term care, the effects of COVID-19 on older adults, and improving trust among those targeted by scams and frauds. The University of Wisconsin—Madison’s Center for Financial Security (CFS), as part of the Retirement … Continue reading CFS RDRC Awarded Fourth Year of Funding to Support Research on Financial Vulnerability