Social Security
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Options for Reform
We've talked a lot about the long-term outlook for Social Security (it is insolvent), its impact on the federal budget (it will increase debt held by...
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Op-Ed: The $2.5 trillion Slush Fund
CNN Money | August 9, 2010 The Social Security trustees released their updated projections last week detailing the financial health of the nation's...
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Social Security: One Program, Two Viewpoints
This week, The Bottom Line will be celebrating Social Security’s upcoming 75th birthday on August 14th, and our main present is a comprehensive look...
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‘Line’ Items: Coming and Going Edition
Gone and Back – The Senate has left for its August recess, the House will return this week (for a day). Congress will be back in session after Labor...
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Beyond Solvency
When we think about Social Security reform, we tend to look at options in terms of their impact solvency -- measured over a 75 years period. In their...
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CRFB Reacts to Trustees Reports
Today, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the financial status of the two programs. The Trustees are...
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Social Security and Medicare Trustees Report Released
Today, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the financial status of the two programs. The Trustees now project...
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Celebrating and Strengthening Social Security
Since Social Security was signed into law by Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 14, 1935, it has become the largest government social insurance program...
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The Right Spending Target
A few weeks ago, Fiscal Commission co-chair Erskine Bowles suggested that in designing a plan, "revenue as a percentage of GDP [should not] be much...
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‘Line’ Items: Heat Wave Edition
If You Can’t Stand the Heat… – Washington has been experiencing a heat wave, but it can’t all be blamed on the friction between the two parties...
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The Social Security Retirement Age
At a time when Social Security is increasingly getting lawmakers' attention for the possibility of reform, raising the retirement age is starting to...