Social Security

We've talked a lot about the long-term outlook for Social Security (it is insolvent), its impact on the federal budget (it will increase debt held by...

This week, The Bottom Line will be celebrating Social Security’s upcoming 75th birthday on August 14th, and our main present is a comprehensive look...

Gone and Back – The Senate has left for its August recess, the House will return this week (for a day). Congress will be back in session after Labor...

When we think about Social Security reform, we tend to look at options in terms of their impact solvency -- measured over a 75 years period. In their...

Today, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the financial status of the two programs. The Trustees now project...

Since Social Security was signed into law by Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 14, 1935, it has become the largest government social insurance program...

A few weeks ago, Fiscal Commission co-chair Erskine Bowles suggested that in designing a plan, "revenue as a percentage of GDP [should not] be much...

If You Can’t Stand the Heat… – Washington has been experiencing a heat wave, but it can’t all be blamed on the friction between the two parties...

At a time when Social Security is increasingly getting lawmakers' attention for the possibility of reform, raising the retirement age is starting to...