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Rep. Ribble Releases Legislation to Make Social Security Solvent
Read moreRepresentative 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
Read moreRep. 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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreMaya 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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreToday, 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
Read moreMaya 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
Read moreSenators 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
Read moreThe Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC’s) Commission on Retirement Security and Personal Savings released its recommendations to improve retirement...
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Marc Goldwein: Alicia Munnell is wrong: Social Security needs a quick fix
Read moreMarc Goldwein is the Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He wrote an opinion piece...
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Social Security Cost Growth Should Be Slowed, Not Accelerated
Read moreIn a speech in Elkhart, Indiana on June 1, President Obama discussed retirement security, saying, "We can’t afford to weaken Social Security. We...
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Jim McCrery and Earl Pomeroy: It's time for action on Social Security disability insurance
Read moreThe Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program provides vital benefits to 11 million workers with disabilities and their families, but much...