Social Security

Reporting from The Wall Street Journal has indicated that lawmakers from both parties are taking a look at using an alternative measure of inflation...

Just as President Obama and the Republican leadership are trading offers, three think tanks--the Heritage Foundation, the Center for American Progress...

The Washington Post has joined the many supporters of using a more accurate measure of inflation, the chained CPI. We've written a paper before about...

Yesterday, the AARP published a report and sent an accompanying letter to members of Congress and President Obama in opposition to switching to the...

The Urban Institute's Eugene Steuerle and Caleb Quakenbush have updated their estimates calculating lifetime Social Security and Medicare benefits and...

Some commentators have suggested that raising the retirement age would be regressive given that lower income recipients tend to have a lower life...

With the release of September inflation numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Social Security Administration also announced its cost-of...

The Mercatus Center has released a new paper by Social Security Trustee Charles Blahous entitled "The End of Social Security Self-Financing." In the...

One of the criticisms of raising the retirement age is the belief that older workers delaying retirement may "crowd out" younger workers and cause...

Social Security trustee Charles Blahous has a interesting new commentary on the long-run sustainability of the Social Security program. The combined...

Last week, Social Security celebrated its 77th birthday. But with the surplus in the trust fund due to be exhausted by 2033, its next 77 years face...

Seventy seven years ago today, the Social Security Act was signed into law. Over the life of the program, it has provided generations of Americans...