The Two Parties on Social Security

Social Security is quickly becoming more and more important in the political landscape as Baby Boomers start retiring and nearing retirement at greater and greater numbers daily and will continue to do so over the coming decade. With this in mind, the two parties have been bumping Social Security up their list of issues for candidates to talk about. It is now easier than before to find out how exactly your candidate views Social Security and how that differs with your own ideals and opinions. Each candidate supports proposals that best line up with their own ideas on how to best fix the current economic field and each of these proposals deals with Social Security, mainly in its solvency, in different ways. For more information on this topic visit this article by Alicia H. Munnell with Market Watch.
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