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WaPo to Obama: Don't Ignore Entitlements
Read moreLast week at Knox College, President Obama gave the first of a series of speeches on the economy. He called on Washington to pass policies that would...
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Fact or Fiction: Is Social Security Regressive?
Read moreIs Social Security a distributionally regressive system overall? Some people may have this conception due to a few features of the program: higher...
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Op-Ed: Should Social Security Cost-of-Living Increases be Trimmed?
Read moreCQ Researcher | July 18, 2013 Should we measure inflation as accurately as possible? Of course we should, particularly when the fiscal implications of...
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Boskin Underscores the Need for DI Reform
Read moreWith all of the new developments in tax reform it may be easy to forget about entitlements. But Michael Boskin, former chairman of the Council of...
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New Estimates of Immigration Reform: What They Say
Read moreBoth the Social Security Chief Actuary and the CBO have already weighed in on the Senate's immigration reform bill, showing that it would give a short...
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The Social Security and Medicare Trustee Reports in Charts
Read moreThe projections in the latest Medicare and Social Security Board of Trustees Report were further proof of the need to reform these important...
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CATO Event: "Disability Insurance: The New Welfare?"
Read moreYesterday, the CATO Institute hosted a panel discussion featuring CATO Senior Fellow Jagadeesh Gokhale, MIT economics professor David Autor...
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NYT Gets It Wrong on Social Security (Again)
Read moreThis weekend, The New York Times (NYT) editorial board laid out an argument for why they believe Social Security’s long-term gap is relatively...
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A Bipartisan Bill to Reduce Overlapping Payments in UI and DI
Read moreBipartisanship will be a crucial element when it comes to reforming Social Security and achieving other budget related reforms in the near future. In...
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Event Recap: Challenges Facing Social Security
Read moreUpdate: The video has now been posted. Today, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the Mercatus Center, and Third Way held an event...
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Taking The Reformer For a Spin
Read moreCRFB's latest interactive tool " The Reformer" is a handy game that allows users to design their own Social Security plan. Users can select from a...
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Op-Ed: Reforming Social Security is Easy — But It Won't Be for Long
Read moreThe Hill | June 4, 2014 The latest Social Security Trustees report, released last week, shows a program in peril. Within three years, the Social...