Social Security News

      Former Social Security Commissioner sat for a long interview with a staffer at the right wing American Enterprise Institute "thi...

      The Cato Institute , a right wing "think tank which has pushed a plan to privatize Social Security , has joined in an amicus brie...

From an earlier "Notch Baby" controversy      From Paul N. Van de Water writing for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities : T...

     Some right wing "think tanks" have been promoting the notion that mandatory private disability benefits could somehow subst...

     Andrew Saul, President Trump's nominee for Commissioner of Social Security, was on the board of trustees of the Manhattan Institu...

     A television station in Kansas is running a piece on a young woman in Kansas diagnosed with lupus who is fighting the denial of her ...

     The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) has put out a piece on the importance of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benef...

     The McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative, which is part of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), has issued a...

     For at least the last four years attorneys who represent Social Security disability claimants have been asking each other why there h...

     As part of a virulently hostile piece about attorneys who represent the disabled, the Manhattan Institute, a right wing "think ...

     The Cato Institute , a right wing "think tank", has issued a set of what it calls "essays" on "downsizing&quo...

     The Center for American Progress has issued a report in Q&A format on Social Security's disability programs. Here are a few s...

     Giving us an idea how the right wing views their chances of privatizing Social Security, Daniel Mitchell of the Cato Institute writes...

     The think tanks are really churning out reports on the Social Security disability programs. The latest comes from  Kathy Ruffing of th...