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

      Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times has quite the takedown of a ridiculous piece on Slate by Eric Boehm and Celeste Headlee titl...

    Republicans in the House of Representatives have put forth their plan for what that they hope to extort from the President by threatenin...

      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 People's Policy Project : In 1983, Ronald Reagan signed into law a cut to Social Security benefits. Under the law, the Soci...

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

      From Helaine Olen writing for the Washington Post : There are two schools of thought when it comes to how well Americans will fare in...

             To be clear, I think full retirement age should be considered a proxy for the physical infirmities that go along with increasin...

      A tweet from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College: Today is #EndPovertyDay. Without #SocialSecurity, a typical white ...

     From Are Older Workers Capable Of Working Longer by Laura D. Quinby and Gal Wettstein, published by the Center for Retirement Research...

      From Think Advisor : Getting the largest possible Social Security check doesn’t appear to be incentive enough for 90% of non-retiree...

     From Are Older Workers Capable Of Working Longer? , a study by Laura D. Quinley and Gal Wettstein of the Center for Retirement Research...

      Jason Fichtner is a mainstream Republican economist specializing in retirement issues. He worked at Social Security during the George ...

     From Market Watch : ...If a single worker with a life expectancy of 90 were to earn the current minimum wage her whole life, and claim...

     From Can Informational Interventions Be Effective Policy Tools? An Initial Assessment of the Social Security Statement by Barbara A. S...

     From Sean  Williams writing in the Statesville Record and Landmark:  ...   Between 1995 and 2016, more than 70% of retired workers rec...

      From  No, the New Deal Wasn't Racist by Samuel Hammond: ... Without counting Social Security, the median-earning white Baby Boome...

    The argument is commonly made that Social Security's full retirement age should be increased because people live longer now than the...