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The Economist on Entitlement Reform
Notwithstanding the recent short-term progress in reducing the deficit, our long-term debt outlook remains a problem. Although additional revenue will...
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Live: Ways and Means Holds Hearing on Social Security Bipartisan Benefit Reforms
Tune in as the House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security will hold a hearing on bipartisan proposals to reform Social Security...
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The Time for Social Security Reform is Now
Today, the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security held a hearing on bipartisan proposals to reform Social Security. Members of the...
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Immigration Reform: A Boon to Social Security?
On the eve of the Senate Judiciary Committee marks up the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill, Stephen Goss, the Chief Actuary of the Social Security...
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Is Chained CPI a 6 Percent Benefit Cut or a 25 Percent Benefit Increase?
With the President proposing switching to the chained CPI to measure inflation, the attack dogs are out. We've written on the merits of moving to the...
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More Ways to Reform the Social Security Disability Insurance Program
The recent NPR segment from Chana Joffe-Walt on the disability insurance program has certainly started a conversation. The Washington Post 's Wonkblog...
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Alice Rivlin To Receive 2013 Robert M. Ball Award
CRFB board member and former CBO and OMB director Alice Rivlin is somewhat of a legend in the budget world, with a long line of work spanning from...
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NPR Takes a Look at Disability Insurance
In a recent story called “Unfit for Work: The Startling Rise of Disability in America,” Chana Joffe-Walt of NPR's Planet Money takes an in-depth look...
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Durbin Voices His Support for Entitlement Reform
In a Wall Street Journal breakfast yesterday, Senate Majority Whip and former Fiscal Commission member Dick Durbin (D-IL) reiterated his support for...
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Steuerle on Why Retirement Age Increases are Not Regressive
When considering raising the retirement ages for Social Security or the eligibility age for Medicare, some critics usually argue that change would...
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Brookings Rethinks...Disability Insurance
We have been working our way through the “15 Ways to Rethink the Budget” report from the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project. Previously, we...
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Why We Can't Wait to Act on the Debt
Last week, Paul Krugman took issue with Tom Friedman's comparison between climate change and the debt situation, but unfortunately missed the mark...