Social Security

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...

Should Social Security cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) be trimmed? In a recently released CQ Researcher Report focusing on government spending...

With all of the new developments in tax reform it may be easy to forget about entitlements. But Michael Boskin, former chairman of the Council of...

Both the Social Security Chief Actuary and the CBO have already weighed in on the Senate's immigration reform bill, showing that it would give a short...

The projections in the latest Medicare and Social Security Board of Trustees Report were further proof of the need to reform these important...

Yesterday, the CATO Institute hosted a panel discussion featuring CATO Senior Fellow Jagadeesh Gokhale, MIT economics professor David Autor...