Among the ideas that have been floated for reducing the Social Security budget is to raise the eligibility age to receive benefits. It is
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Robert Reich: Don’t accept Obama’s chained CPI
The chained CPI is a cut to Social Security benefits that would hurt most seniors—it’s an idea not befitting a Democratic president. If Obama
Lame duck hope: Logical thinking on Social Security, at long last
Something unexpectedly hopeful has happened in the 2012 lame duck session of Congress: Senator Mark Begic, a Democrat from Arkansas, has introduced a Social
America’s budget problem is a revenue problem
Contrary to warnings by politicians of both parties and by almost all of the mainstream press, America’s biggest fiscal problem is not spending on
Bernie Sanders’ progressive deficit-reduction plan
Sen. Bernie Sanders announced on Friday, November 12 that he will work with members of Congress, labor unions, seniors’ organizations, economists and others to
The case for doubling Social Security benefits
So far the debate on Social Security has been between the deficit hawks who want to cut Social Security benefits to reduce government debt
Social Security works
In honor of the 75th anniversary of Social Security, Nancy Altman, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Pension Rights Center, and Eric