Social Security
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Disability Insurance and the Great Recession
Update: A new note from the Office of the Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration finds that allowance rates actually fell during the...
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Report: Social Security Reform and the Cost of Delay
Update 8/11/15: We've updated this report with the new data available in the 2015 Trustees report in our blog .
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CAP's Proposal to Improve Retirement Accounts
With President Obama set to give a speech in the coming weeks on retirement security, the Center for American Progress (CAP) has released a report...
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Want to Protect Low-Income Individuals? Look Toward a Grand Bargain
Today, a piece in the Financial Times shows the unnecessary damage being done by the ongoing sequester -- in this case, sharp cuts to federal support...
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Celebrating 78 Years of Social Security
It's August 14 and that means it is Social Security's birthday! The program has been around for 78 years, providing retirement security to the elderly...
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Watch 160 Years of Population Aging...In One Chart
Over at Calculated Risk, Bill McBride has created an animated chart showing America's age distribution evolve, as far back as 1900 to the current day...
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Ways and Means Committee Continues Work on Entitlement Reform
While everyone is focused on tax reform developments these days, we cannot forget about the need for entitlement reform. In an attempt to devise a...
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Comprehensive Deficit Reduction Need Not Slash Retirement Benefits to Control Spending
A recent report from Scott Lilly at CAP makes the case that policymakers have only two real choices to respond to the future growth in debt levels...
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Raising Retirement Age Would Promote Working Longer
The 2008 recession substantially altered the enrollment and operations of many government programs, particularly those providing financial benefits...
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WaPo to Obama: Don't Ignore Entitlements
Last week at Knox College, President Obama gave the first of a series of speeches on the economy. He called on Washington to pass policies that would...
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Fact or Fiction: Is Social Security Regressive?
Is Social Security a distributionally regressive system overall? Some people may have this conception due to a few features of the program: higher...
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MY VIEW: Marc Goldwein July 2013
Should Social Security cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) be trimmed? In a recently released CQ Researcher Report focusing on government spending...