Social Security

While many in Washington are bracing for more partisan brinksmanship in the upcoming negotiations over the debt ceiling and a potential government...

Update: A new note from the Office of the Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration finds that allowance rates actually fell during the...

With President Obama set to give a speech in the coming weeks on retirement security, the Center for American Progress (CAP) has released a report...

Today, a piece in the Financial Times shows the unnecessary damage being done by the ongoing sequester -- in this case, sharp cuts to federal support...

It's August 14 and that means it is Social Security's birthday! The program has been around for 78 years, providing retirement security to the elderly...

Over at Calculated Risk, Bill McBride has created an animated chart showing America's age distribution evolve, as far back as 1900 to the current day...

While everyone is focused on tax reform developments these days, we cannot forget about the need for entitlement reform. In an attempt to devise a...

A recent report from Scott Lilly at CAP makes the case that policymakers have only two real choices to respond to the future growth in debt levels...

The 2008 recession substantially altered the enrollment and operations of many government programs, particularly those providing financial benefits...

Last week at Knox College, President Obama gave the first of a series of speeches on the economy. He called on Washington to pass policies that would...

Is Social Security a distributionally regressive system overall? Some people may have this conception due to a few features of the program: higher...