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Marc Goldwein: Five Social Security Plans That Really Would Help Make America Great Again
Marc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote a guest...
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Gene Steuerle: The 'Save Our Social Security Act of 2016': A Major Step Toward Reform
Without fanfare, a bipartisan group of Representatives has introduced a bill that could bring Social Security’s finances close to long-term balance.
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Long-Term Budget Outlook Underlines Trouble Ahead for Social Security
The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) 2016 Long-Term Budget Outlook release came with updated projections of the 75-year solvency of Social Security...
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Rep. Ribble Releases Legislation to Make Social Security Solvent
Representative Reid Ribble (R-WI) along with a bipartisan group of cosponsors released the Save Our Social Security Act today, a bill which would make...
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Statement by Maya MacGuineas on Introduction of the Save Our Social Security Act
Rep. Reid Ribble and the co-sponsors of the Save Our Social Security Act deserve huge praise for putting forward a serious and responsible plan to...
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Social Security May Be In Worse Shape Than Trustees Suggest
The Social Security Trustees made their projections last week showing the program's sizeable shortfall and its trust fund's insolvency date, but there...
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Maya MacGuineas: Social Security: focus on solvency first
Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an op-ed that...
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A Quick Take on the 2016 Social Security Trustees Report
The Social Security and Medicare Trustees have released their reports on the financial state of their respective programs. With regards to Social...
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Analysis of the 2016 Social Security Trustees Report
Today, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the financial status of each program. The projections show that both...
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Maya MacGuineas: In Two Social Security Reports, Ways to Reduce Senior Poverty Without Broad Benefit Cuts
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...
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Senators Cotton and Lee Propose Ideas to Strengthen SSDI
Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced legislation recently to help improve the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program...
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Entitlement Reform Proposals Offered by BPC and AEI
The Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC’s) Commission on Retirement Security and Personal Savings released its recommendations to improve retirement...