3 ways to fix Social Security’s funding shortfall

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3 ways to fix Social Security’s funding shortfall

Posted on August 14, 2015

(By - Phil Moeller, via www.cnbc.com)

Social Security is celebrating its 80th birthday this week—not bad for a program that was as hotly contested in its day (three trips to the U.S. Supreme Court) as was Medicare 50 years ago and as the Affordable Care Act still is, even five years after it was passed. When Larry Kotlikoff, Paul Solman and I were writing “Get What’s Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security,” we agreed on nearly everything in the book except the future path that Social Security would take. Read more…

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