Social Security

As the title of the blog suggests, the Urban Institute has a video with senior fellow Melissa Favreault analyzing the Social Security piece of Bowles...

Later this week, Senate majority leader Harry Reid is expected to hold a vote on the two largest components of President Obama’s jobs bill, totaling...

It's amazing how sequences in Washington can repeat themselves. Back in June, when switching to the chained CPI was talked about as an option in the...

Congressman Chaffetz (R-UT) has just proposed a Social Security reform plan to restore solvency to the program. The plan relies on reforms to the...

With reports that the Super Committee has been considering reforms to Social Security, rhetoric from all sides of the issue has been heating up. This...

As is well-known by now, the growth in entitlement programs fueled by rising health care costs and an aging population threatens an ever-increasing...

Social Security beneficiaries will see a raise in their benefits next year, resulting from a 3.6 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increase...

Yesterday, the President offered a plan for how he would pay for his $447 billion jobs proposal. The pay-fors would come entirely from revenues...

CBO's latest Social Security projections bring no surprises to anyone familiar with the state of the program's finances. CBO projects the program to...

Clutch Goals -- The U.S. Women’s Soccer team scored an improbable victory over Brazil on Sunday in the Women’s World Cup, overcoming a scoring and...

Coverage of the so-called "chained CPI" has been heating up recently, due to rumors that it might be included in the latest round of debt negotiations...

As we explained in our recent analysis of CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook, the debt is on an unsustainable path. Only a decade from now, under their...