Social Security

Lawmakers may soon consider Social Security Subcommittee Chairman John Larson's (D-CT) Social Security 2100: A Sacred Trust ( A Sacred Trust), a bill...

On February 17, Senators Angus King (I-ME) and Mitt Romney (R-UT) joined the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and panel of experts to...

The Social Security trust funds are expected to be insolvent by 2033 according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and by 2035 according to the...

On September 1, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted “What’s Going on With the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds.” The event...

The Social Security (our analysis here) and Medicare (our analysis here) Trustees just released their annual reports for 2021 on the financial status...

In our recent paper “ The Case for Trust Fund Solutions,” we showed that making the Social Security, Medicare, and highway trust funds solvent would...

Social Security, the nation's largest and arguably most important government program, is only a few years from insolvency. Economists Jeffrey Brown...

Last week, a bipartisan and bicameral group of lawmakers reintroduced the TRUST Act, which would establish bipartisan commissions to restore solvency...

A number of important federal programs — including Social Security and Medicare — are financed through dedicated revenue sources and managed through...