Social Security
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Statement for the Record on Social Security: A Discussion on the Facts and the Path Forward
Read moreThe Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget submitted a statement for the record pertaining to the Senate Budget Committee hearing on "Social...
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A Six Figure Limit for Social Security
Read moreSocial Security is less than seven years from insolvency, at which point the law calls for a 24% across-the-board benefit cut. Yet despite facing...
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A Sovereign Debt Fund Can’t Save Social Security
Read moreSocial Security is projected to be insolvent in less than seven years. Lawmakers need to make changes to the funding and benefit structure of this...
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Social Security Solvency Can Strengthen the Economy and Budget
Read moreThe Social Security retirement trust fund is projected to go insolvent in Fiscal Year (FY) 2032 under the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) new...
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Udall and Beauprez Highlight Need to Fix Social Security
Read moreFormer Senator Mark Udall, a Democrat who represented Colorado in the U.S. Senate from 2009 to 2015, and former Congressman Bob Beauprez, a Republican...
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Maya MacGuineas: NC can set example on Social Security this November
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Carolina Journal, an...
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Break Glass: A Plan for the Next Economic Shock
Read moreThe U.S. has never experienced an economic shock as indebted as we are today. Recessions and other economic shocks are inevitable. Although the timing...
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CRFB Releases Social Security: Just the Facts
Read moreSocial Security is the bedrock of the U.S. retirement system, providing benefits for 70 million Americans. And yet, with the program projected to be...
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Maya MacGuineas: America Needs a Social Security Commission
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Dallas Morning News , the...
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Maya MacGuineas: Here's How to Fix Social Security
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for The Dallas Morning News , the...
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Maya MacGuineas: Myths and Fearmongering are Driving Social Security to Insolvency
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for The Dallas Morning News, the...
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90% of Spending Growth Will Come From Health, Retirement, Veterans, & Interest
Read moreOver the coming decade, the vast majority of growth in federal government spending will come from just four parts of the federal budget: Social...