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Line Items: Poolside Edition
Read moreDive In – The pools have opened to provide relief from the summer heat and an opportunity to work on those tans. Congress is back in session this week...
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A Bipartisan Bill to Reduce Overlapping Payments in UI and DI
Read moreBipartisanship will be a crucial element when it comes to reforming Social Security and achieving other budget related reforms in the near future. In...
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Reset the Fiscal Debate, But Towards a Comprehensive Fiscal Plan
Read moreIn a new paper, the Center for American Progress's Michael Linden makes the case for resetting the fiscal debate. His main point is that given...
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A Closer Look at the Medicare Actuary's Alternative Medicare Projections
Read moreEarlier this week, we discussed the new Medicare Trustees projections which project that the Hospital Insurance (HI, or Part A) trust fund will be...
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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.