Social Security reform
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),…
Social Security: Let’s Look at Some of the Key Myths
The potential for Social Security reform is starting to gain momentum in the 118th Congress, and several of our posts over the past several weeks on this site have covered signs of forward motion on this vexing issue. Given the…
Will there be Social Security reform in 2023?
Social Security will be celebrating its 88th birthday on August 14, 2023. Like most 88-year-old systems, it needs some help. We are all aware the Social Security Trust fund will run dry in 2034, causing cuts to the benefits paid…
Social Security’s Solvency Dilemma: Drawing Closer and Closer
Social Security’s Board of Trustees will soon be issuing their annual assessment of where the program stands in relation to long-term financing, and it appears likely to some forecasters that the date for exhaustion of the program’s trust fund reserves will move…
Delaying Social Security reform imperils next generation’s future
This article is an edited transcript of a conversation between David Branaccio and Arun Muralidhar, founder of MCube Investment Technologies, on the dangers of not acting on Social Security reform soon. The two discuss the Social Security Trustees report from June 2018. …
Rep. Reed discusses ideas to save Social Security and Medicare
That Social Security and Medicare need reform is news to no one in Congress of either party. But bipartisan solutions have eluded passage for decades. Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) said, “We care about those on Social Security and Medicare and are…