Social Security News

      John Tammy has written a piece for Forbes arguing that Social Security is no longer the Third Rail of American politics because peopl...

      From The Hill writing about Tuesday's hearing before the House Social Security Subcommittee on future funding of Social Security ...

What about more people like these taking the citizenship oath?       Megan McArdle writes for the Washington Post that " The only real...

      From a press release : The Social Security Board of Trustees today released its annual report on the financial status of the health o...

    From The Case For Using Subsidies For Retirement Plans To Fix Social Security by Andrew Biggs and Alicia Munnell: The U.S. Treasury es...

       From Marketwatch : When Alan Greenspan and his committee supposedly “fixed” Social Security’s funding crisis in the early 1980s, the ...

      Back in 2015 Martin O'Malley was running for President. He didn't get very far but he did take these positions on Social Secur...

      A press release : There will be a H earing of the Committee on the Budget  On:   Wednesday, July 12, 2023, 10:00 AM  In:  Room SD-60...

      From the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College: ... The fact that in 2033 Social Security would be able to pay only 77 pe...

      From the Associated Press : Most U.S. adults are opposed to proposals that would cut into Medicare or Social Security benefits, and a...

      From Semafor : A bipartisan group led by Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, and Bill Cassidy, R-La. is considering gradually raising the re...

      Paul Krugman has an excellent piece in the New York Times about why we should not panic about Social Security. You really should read...

  From the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare

    From the Washington Post :  In that Jan. 25 meeting [with the President], [Senator Bernie] Sanders pushed the president to fully fund S...

      From Marketwatch : Social Security should be able to pay out full benefits until 2035 without any intervention, but a proposal by Sen...

      From the Motley Fool : …  Look at social media message boards, and you'll find one commonly repeated viewpoint: That undocumented ...

      From the Washington Post : ...  Only weeks after taking control of the chamber, GOP lawmakers under new Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal...

      From Joseph Chamie writing for The Hil l : Despite an expected backlash, vocal objections and possible threats, it’s time to raise Ame...

      From Michael Hiltzik writing for the Los Angeles Times: You may have thought that the drubbing Republicans received in the recent el...

     From Rudy Boschwitz writing for the Wall Street Journal : Social Security is a perennial crisis. Eighty-three percent of Generation X ...