Social Security

Charles Blahous's paper on the Affordable Care Act has sparked a lot of buzz, leading to some discussion about "double-counting" the Medicare savings...

CBPP released a paper last week re-affirming their support for switching to the chained CPI for calculation inflation adjustments for benefit programs...

Over the course of this week, we have been discussing CBO's recent Budget and Economic Outlook. On Tuesday, we summarized the report and released a...

Over the past couple of years, we've been arguing that raising the Social Security and Medicare ages could be an important part of a fiscal reform...

As the title of the blog suggests, the Urban Institute has a video with senior fellow Melissa Favreault analyzing the Social Security piece of Bowles...

In an op-ed for The Atlantic, CRFB Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein made the case for offsetting the costs of the payroll tax cut, AMT patch, and...

Later this week, Senate majority leader Harry Reid is expected to hold a vote on the two largest components of President Obama’s jobs bill, totaling...

It's amazing how sequences in Washington can repeat themselves. Back in June, when switching to the chained CPI was talked about as an option in the...

Congressman Chaffetz (R-UT) has just proposed a Social Security reform plan to restore solvency to the program. The plan relies on reforms to the...