Yesterday the Social Security Administration announced upcoming changes to Social Security, including the highly anticipated 2020 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA). Beginning…
Category: Social Security policy
Social Security: America’s greatest antipoverty policy
Seventy-nine years ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, saying, “Today, a hope of many years’…
House Ways and Means subcommittee discusses Social Security reform
Earlier this year, the Ways and Means subcommittee held a series of hearings on Social Security’s solvency projections, American retirees’…
Could this be the year Congress acts on Social Security?
Introduced in January of this year, Representative John Larson’s (D-CT) Social Security 2100 Act is still gathering momentum on Capitol…
Is Social Security “bloating the deficit?”
…Wait. Did she say “Social Security?” Social Security’s relationship with federal deficits and the national debt is a topic of hot…