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Congressman Ribble Calls for Action on Social Security
Recently, Congressman Reid Ribble (R-WI) sent a letter to his colleagues in Congress calling for them to use the upcoming fiscal discussions to push...
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Making Disability Insurance Work Better
Naturally, lawmakers are diverting their attention to resolving sequestration, the debt ceiling, and the expiring continuing resolution, but another...
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Orlando Sentinel: Make Social Security Part of Budget Solution
While many in Washington are bracing for more partisan brinksmanship in the upcoming negotiations over the debt ceiling and a potential government...
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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...