Social Security News

      From The New Republic : Republicans have claimed over and over again that they are not trying to cut Social Security and Medicare. He...

    From Fox News : One of the leaders of a bipartisan Senate working group focused on extending Social Security accused President Biden of...

      From Reuters : A Republican U.S. senator's accusation on Thursday that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen had lied during a tussle o...

      Yuval Levy of the right wing American Enterprise Institute has written a op ed piece for the New York Times that starts out with a be...

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

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

      From USA Today : Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene , R-Ga., stood up from her seat in the back of the House chamber to heckle President Joe ...

      From Michael Hiltzik at the Los Angeles Times: Former Vice President Mike Pence dipped his toes into the presidential campaign water...

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

      From Roll Call : If Republicans take one or both chambers of Congress in November, don’t be surprised if shoring up Social Security’s...

     Some excerpts from a piece by Paula Span in the Health Section of the New York Times : We’ve long heard warnings that the Social...

     It won't surprise anyone familiar with the publication but the National Review has posted a piece calling for Social Security ...

     Richard Burkhauser has been appointed to the President's Council of Economic Advisers (CEO) . I mention this because Burkhauser  ...

     From The Hill : President Trump scrapped potential reforms to Social Security and Medicare while preparing his first budget reques...

     The Wall Street Journal seems disappointed that Donald Trump doesn't share their zeal for "Social Security reform." Of...

     Take a look at the views of the Republican Presidential candidates on Social Security: Jeb Bush : Increase full retirement age, poss...

      From the Atlanta Journal Constitution : Roswell [GA] Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Price intends to tackle big-ticket entitlement prog...

     Below is a chart showing average growth rates in disability benefits by decade across several countries from Disability Benefit Growth...

     From the Washington Post's Wonkblog: Reps. Tom Cole (R-Okla) and John Delaney (D-Md) introduced a bill Friday that would creat...

     From Michael Hiltzik at the L.A. Times : Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyoming), perhaps our leading avatar of misinformation abou...