Social Security reform
Candidate Pence on Social Security Reform
Former Vice President and 2024 presidential candidate Mike Pence, speaking in a recent CNN Iowa town hall, essentially disagreed with the stance voiced by Donald Trump and Joe Biden on Social Security reform, noting that making no changes is not…
Four Principles Designed to Salvage Social Security for the Long-Term
The solvency dilemma Social Security faces has gotten some attention in the early days of the 118th Congress, but despite the urgency–full depletion of the program’s reserves is less than a decade away–proposals to ward off a catastrophe haven’t gotten…
Social Security’s $8.6 Billion Accounts Receivable Problem
Yesterday, in a Latest News post on this site, we provided a link to an article describing staffing and budget issues at the Social Security Administration and their impact on client service levels at the agency. Today, we explore an…
Social Security Today: A “People Over Politics” Perspective
As the rhetoric on Social Security’s long-term financial issues heats up, so does the division between approaches to reforming the system. Structural changes on one side of the argument focus on modernizing the program to bring it into line with…
Social Security Reform…Between a Rock and a Hard Place?
Since the March 31 release of the 2023 Social Security Trustees Report, and actually for months and years before that, the news waves have been awash with commentary about what can, should, or is likely to be done to address…
Peterson Foundation: Sidestepping Social Security & Medicare Reform “Not an Option”
New York City-based Peter G. Peterson Foundation recently issued a statement addressing views on the debt ceiling proposals emerging from House Republican leadership and the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus. While citing encourgagement that the proposals offer “… fiscal reforms that…
Social Security Solvency: Congressional Inaction is Not the Answer
The rhetoric is heating up these days on the subject of Social Security’s looming insolvency problem…and that’s certainly no surprise to anyone who’s been tuned in to this slow-moving train wreck. Indeed, through the years, many bills have been introduced…
A call for “common sense” reforms to Social Security
Former vice president Mike Pence, a likely 2024 presidential contender, is advocating for “common sense reforms” to Social Security and Medicare. Speaking to university students, “if we act in this moment with the support of this generation, we can introduce…
Warshawsky on the Social Security Expansion Act
American Enterprise Institute Searle Fellow Mark J. Warshawsky, in an OpEd piece published on thehill.com, dissects the Social Security Expansion Act bill (S. 393) proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) and endorsed by nine fellow Democrats, calling it a flawed proposal that…
The Growing Emphasis on Social Security Reform
As we’ve been reporting for the past several weeks and months, the rhetoric on Social Security reform is steadily building. In fact, this week brought a riveting debate that played out on MSNBC in prime time (see our previous posts),…