Hispanic Business reports on a study -- actually a series of studies -- by the UCLA Latinos and Social Security Research Project. The study found that Latinos will help subsidize Social Security benefits for other Americans in coming years, because Latinos have an average age of 26 while the average age of the population as a whole is 35. The study suggests that Social Security be shored up by devoting the estate tax to the Social Security trust funds and increasing the maximum amount of earnings subject to FICA. The UCLA studies are available from the UCLA Press.
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ReplyDeleteYou could have made the same argument when all the boomers were born that they were going support the older generation. Every large surge in a particular age segment you will see a statement like this. The race issue has nothing to do with it. It has more to do with the increase in the latino population growth but as a minority they are still distant to white and blacks. So it is skewed in this article.
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