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Trustees: Social Security & Medicare Approaching Insolvency
Read moreThe Social Security (our analysis here) and Medicare (our analysis here) Trustees just released their annual reports for 2021 on the financial status...
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Trust Fund Solutions Would Be Pro-Growth
Read moreIn our recent paper “ The Case for Trust Fund Solutions,” we showed that making the Social Security, Medicare, and highway trust funds solvent would...
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Time is Running Out to Save Social Security
Read moreSocial Security, the nation's largest and arguably most important government program, is only a few years from insolvency. Economists Jeffrey Brown...
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TRUST Act has Bipartisan, Bicameral Reintroduction
Read moreLast week, a bipartisan and bicameral group of lawmakers reintroduced the TRUST Act, which would establish bipartisan commissions to restore solvency...
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CBO Projects Major Trust Fund Exhaustions on the Horizon
Read moreA number of important federal programs — including Social Security and Medicare — are financed through dedicated revenue sources and managed through...
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Social Security Turned 85 – We Must Secure Its Future
Read moreFor Immediate Release Today marks the 85th anniversary of the Social Security program, America’s largest and most successful income support program...
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Senate Proposal Would Address Trust Fund Insolvency Accelerated by COVID Recession
Read moreFor Immediate Release The next COVID relief bill could incorporate the bipartisan TRUST Act, a bill which would establish bipartisan bicameral...
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Major Trust Funds Headed for Insolvency Within 11 Years
Read moreA number of important federal programs, such as Social Security and Medicare, are financed through dedicated revenue sources and managed through...
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Robert Reischauer and Charles Blahous: Letter from Former Trustees of Social Security and Medicare
Read moreRobert Reischauer is a former public Trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds, president emeritus of the Urban Institute, and a member...
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Analysis of the 2020 Social Security Trustees' Report
Read moreToday, the Social Security Trustees released their annual report, showing that Social Security faces a precarious and worsening financial situation –...
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Pre-COVID, Social Security and Medicare Faced Insolvency
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees have released their reports on the financial state of their programs. Even though the Trustees do not...
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Trustees Detail Pre-COVID-19 Medicare, Social Security Insolvency Timeline
Read moreFor Immediate Release The Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports today showing that, before accounting for the COVID-19...