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Social Security for the Life-Cycle
As Congress nears the month-long mark of budget negotiations, a recent poll by Public Policy Polling found that voters in key swing states and districts both overwhelmingly oppose reducing social security and support expanding the long-time federal social insurance program. The findings, which run contrary to the current bi-partisan intent to cut social security in the name of fiscal austerity, not only poses electoral problems for members of both parties, but also challenges policymakers to produce bold policy solutions to expand the aims and concept of social security. Read more…