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Are We On The Road To A Generational War Over Social Security?
There’s a showdown looming between the young and the old, according to demographics expert Paul Taylor, author of The Next America: Boomers, Millennials and the Looming Generational Showdown . Unlike the last time America grappled with a generation gap and…
The Real Retirement Crisis
America has a retirement crisis, but it’s not what some people want you to believe it is. It’s not the defined benefit pension plans that public employees pay into over a lifetime of work, which provide retirees an average of…
The Health-Care Job That Really Matters
The official who matters most when it comes to controlling U.S. health-care spending has just resigned, leaving behind a program with serious fiscal problems that badly needs further reform. No, not Kathleen Sebelius – and the program isn’t the Affordable…
Will Medicare patients be left out of the bionics revolution?
The dawn of the Bionic Man is upon us. Bionic eyes help the blind to see and bionic ears allow the deaf to hear. Bionic limbs let the armless man reach and grasp and bionic legs have helped a fallen…
The Richer You Are the Older You’ll Get
Money may not buy love, but it appears to buy years. Economist Barry Bosworth at the Brookings Institution crunched the numbers and found that the richer you are, the longer you’ll live. And it’s a gap that is widening, particularly…
An Analysis of the President’s 2015 Budget
This report by CBO presents an analysis of the proposals in the President’s budget request for fiscal year 2015, as submitted to the Congress on March 4, 2014. The analysis is based on CBO’s economic projections and estimating models (rather…
Medicare release and DATA Act signal major events in the age of data transparency
On April 10, 2014 I talked about a data revolution at a World Bank event in Washington, D.C. and listened to the thoughts of others about the subject. In his remarks, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank…
Social Security Chief: Women Live Longer, So They Should Save Early
The Social Security Administration distributes retirement benefits to nearly 60 million Americans. And of those beneficiaries, nearly 60 percent are women. The SSA is led by a woman, too. Carolyn Colvin was once retired herself, collecting benefits from the agency…
What No One Wants to Admit About Social Security Taxes
It’s a bummer when you see how much income tax comes out of your paycheck. But when you see that Social Security line item, do you think, “At least that’s going to pay for my retirement”? It’s not. The tax…
Two Leading Senior Groups Join Together
The conservative voice of America’s senior citizens “has just gotten a little louder,” according to Dan Weber, president of the Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC), and Michael Young, founder of Generation America, who issued a joint announcement today on…