Social Security
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Double Counting and Medicare Part A
Read moreLast month, Social Security and Medicare Trustee Chuck Blahous sparked a controversy by saying that the Affordable Care Act would add to the deficit...
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A Social Solution for Social Security
Read moreLast week’s report from the Social Security Trustees laid out the challenges facing the vital program. The largest federal program began running...
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Marc Goldwein: Social Security Disability System Is Broken
Read moreCRFB's Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein has a message to policymakers in an op-ed in The Hill: don't overlook the disability insurance (DI)...
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Op-Ed: Social Security Disability System Is Broken
Read moreThe Hill | May 1, 2012 Since the Social Security Trustees report was released last week, we’ve heard a lot about the year 2033. That’s the year when...
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Jim Kolbe and Charlie Stenholm: Congress Cannot Afford to Punt on Social Security
Read moreToday, two of CRFB's co-chairman, former Representatives Charlie Stenholm (D-TX) and Jim Kolbe (R-AZ), penned an op-ed in The Hill, saying that the...
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A Hypothetical Debate on Social Security
Read moreA new article from Jeffrey Brown of Forbes succinctly captures much of the debate around the findings of the Social Security Trustees report. In many...
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CRFB Breaks Down the Social Security Trustees Report
Read moreWith the release of Trustees reports on Social Security and Medicare, CRFB has released its analysis of the Social Security report, breaking down the...
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Any Minute Now....
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees have signed off on their respective reports on the financial projections for the two programs, though we...
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