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Terry Jones writes for Issues and Insights about disturbing new poll results. Is there a serious crisis of confidence in the Social Security system? It certainly looks that way, based…
Editors at National Review Online explore the future of major American entitlement programs. Politicians in both parties have behaved as if old-age entitlement programs are infinitely sustainable and require no…
Dominic Pino writes for National Review Online about a major media outlet’s dubious take on Social Security.
Andrew Biggs and Kristin Shapiro offer a plan to address Social Security’s most pressing challenge. Social Security’s Old Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund is projected to be exhausted in…
How many Americans will be thrown into generational poverty because of "two weeks to slow the spread?"
Sita Nataraj Slavov writes for Law and Liberty about uncertainty surrounding Social Security’s long-term viability. Say you’re a young or middle-aged person who isn’t planning to retire for at least…
Michael Tanner uses a National Review Online column to emphasize the long-term negative outlook for American entitlement programs. If you blinked last week, you may have missed the latest report…
John Cogan explains how federal entitlements have always grown in his new book, The High Cost of Good Intentions. He told stories of veterans’ benefits, FDR’s early opposition to entitlements, the…
Jim McTague‘s latest “D.C. Current” column in Barron’s contends the president’s Social Security plan fails to address key problems. Leave the country’s biggest fiscal mess for the next guy. That…
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Jon Cowan and Jim Kessler discuss economic populism and why it is failed public policy. Social Security is exhibit A of this populist political…
Gene Epstein‘s latest “Economic Beat” column in Barron’s explores the impact of the frequent misuse of language in political and economic debates. “THE SLOVENLINESS OF our language makes it easier…
If you’ve ever had a chat with someone who claims — with a straight face — that Social Security, Medicare, and the federal government in general have no real problems…