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Rethinking the idea of retirement & working age
Vivian Lam has an interesting piece here in The Conversation that challenges traditional ways of thinking about chronological age, cognitive age, and functional age. She notes retirement ages will have to rise and that Denmark is planning on raising its…
Trump: No income tax on Social Security
Timothy Nerozzi of Fox News reports on news that Donald Trump made related to Social Security this week. Income tax on benefits draws the ire of seniors nationwide, especially since more are ensnared each year by the low thresholds that…
Is There a Retirement Crisis?
Spencer Look and Jack VanDerhei of Morningstar present a nuanced piece here to address the question about a U.S. retirement crisis. The pair use the new Morningstar Model of US Retirement Outcomes to analyze the likelihood that today’s workers will have adequate…
Trump & Harris Trade Barbs on Social Security. Who’s Right?
Glenn Kessler starts with, “In every presidential election, Democrats and Republicans lob charges and claims about the venerable old-age programs Social Security and Medicare.” Indeed. Harris is incorrectly stating Project 2025 cuts Social Security. She seems to be using that…
Economist Predicts How a President Harris Would Handle Social Security Reform
Over 70 million people receive Social Security benefits. Angela Mae of Yahoo Finance asked Professor Dennis Shirshikov of City University of New York for his predictions on how Kamala Harris is likely to handle the impending insolvency of the program, should…
Thought Leaders Weigh In on Social Security Reform
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation (PGPF), a nonpartisan organization focusing on the nation’s fiscal issues, provides various forums for policy influencers to contribute to the legislative conversations shaping the future for America’s seniors. PGPF’s Solutions Initiative 2024 is one such…
AI and Social Security—Perfect Together? Maybe Not!
The headlong rush into artificial intelligence (AI) these days produces a steady stream of new players. As a concept, though, AI dates back several decades, with a simple mission of using computer science and robust datasets to enable problem-solving. The…
On Social Security Solvency, No Surprise… Americans Want Action!
Hardly a day goes by that doesn’t present media accounts of Social Security’s long-term financial problems, most with dire projections of a substantial benefit reduction in about a decade. The hand-wringing is intense, often highlighting the terrible effects of an…
Challenging the “Tax the Rich” Pathway to Solvency
It’s a frequent refrain when addressing Social Security’s insolvency problem: “Make the rich pay their fair share.” You heard it in the State of the Union messaging earlier this year, you heard it in the recent presidential election debate, and…
Analyzing the Republican National Party’s Social Security Position
As the dust settles from last week’s Republican National Convention, attention will of course turn toward the specific platform components the Trump Campaign will promote in the run-up to November. One of these components key to America’s seniors is the…