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Event Recap: Challenges Facing Social Security
Read moreUpdate: The video has now been posted. Today, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the Mercatus Center, and Third Way held an event...
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Taking The Reformer For a Spin
Read moreCRFB's latest interactive tool " The Reformer" is a handy game that allows users to design their own Social Security plan. Users can select from a...
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MY VIEW: Marc Goldwein June 2013
Read moreThe new Social Security Trustees Report leaves us another year closer to the trust fund's insolvency and the takeaway remains the same - we do not...
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Op-Ed: Reforming Social Security is Easy — But It Won't Be for Long
Read moreThe Hill | June 4, 2014 The latest Social Security Trustees report, released last week, shows a program in peril. Within three years, the Social...
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Gale on Deficit Optimism
Read moreAs we've said before, while the new budget projections from the CBO are an encouraging sign, it is easy to be overly optimistic about what the...
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Medicare Trust Fund Exhaustion Now Set for 2026
Read moreAlong with their report on the financial status of the Social Security trust fund, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees on Friday released a...
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Line Items: Grilling Edition
Read moreGrilling Time – It’s that time of year when the grills get fired up. There’s been grilling on Capitol Hill as well, with government officials being...
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Report: Analysis of the 2013 Social Security Trustees' Report
Read moreThe event "Challenges Facing Social Security," which featured CRFB's " The Reformer" tool, was held on June 4. Read a recap of the event here.
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Senate Finance Committee Looks at Economic Security Provisions
Read moreLast week, the Senate Finance Committee released a seventh report in a series of papers examining the federal tax code and options for comprehensive...
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Social Security Trustees Release Latest Projections
Read moreToday, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports with projections of the finances of both programs. The bottom lines of...
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WATCH: Social Security and Medicare Trustees Release Their Reports
Read moreAt 11 AM Eastern time, the Social Security and Medicare trustees will release their respective reports on the finances of the two programs over the...
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An Update of the Fiscal Speed Bumps on the Horizon
Read moreEarlier today, CRFB took a look at two of the biggest "fiscal speed bumps" remaining for the year, the exhaustion of extraordinary measures to advert...