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Is the Number of Workers per Social Security Retiree Declining?
Read moreIn the so-called "undercard" debate, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) stated: “In 1950, there were 16 workers for every retiree. How many are there today...
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NYT's Tritch Misses the Mark on SSDI Funding Options
Read moreThe New York Times Editorial Board's Teresa Tritch posted a piece last week on short-term solutions to avert next year's depletion of the Social...
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Maya MacGuineas: Protecting the Legacy of Social Security for Future Generations
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a guest post for the Social Security Administration's blog. It is...
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Bipartisan Policy Center Publishes SSDI Recommendations
Read moreThe Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) recently convened a Disability Insurance Working Group and released their recommendations to address the upcoming...
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Three Scenarios for Projecting Debt
Read moreOur recent analysis of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) August baseline focused on CBO's official current law baseline projections, which show...
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Event Recap: McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Conference
Read moreOn Tuesday, August 4, 2015, the McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative hosted its SSDI Solutions Conference, presenting the 12 papers commissioned...
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Judd Gregg: Ensuring Social Security’s Future
Read moreSocial Security faces very serious financial challenges, and its own trustees estimate that its deficits will lead to trust fund insolvency by 2034.
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Adam Rosenberg: Four Myths About Social Security
Read moreAdam Rosenberg, a policy analyst with the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a guest post that appeared on the RealClearPolicy blog. It...
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Are Social Security Benefits Modest?
Read moreWith Social Security’s recent 80th birthday behind us, a debate has arisen over whether or not Social Security benefits are "modest" for a typical...
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Gene Steuerle: Reforming Disability Policy: Tough Choices Required
Read moreDr. Eugene (Gene) Steuerle is the Richard B. Fisher chair and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and a member of the Committee for a Responsible...
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SSDI Solutions Initiative Releases Issue Brief on the Financial State of the Program
Read moreThe McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative newly released an issue brief on the financial state of the SSDI program, the third primer in its series...
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8 Myths on Social Security's 80th Birthday
Read moreToday marks Social Security's 80th birthday, celebrating the anniversary of the establishment of the old-age portion of the program in the Social...