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Jul 22, 2020 | Blog Paper Press Release | Health Care| Social Security| Other Spending

Major Trust Funds Headed for Insolvency Within 11 Years

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Robert Reischauer
May 14, 2020 | Blog Paper Press Release | Health Care| Social Security

Robert Reischauer and Charles Blahous: Letter from Former Trustees of Social Security and Medicare

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Jun 25, 2014 | Blog Paper Press Release | Social Security

Sahadi Warns of Disability Insurance Insolvency

We've written many times on the need to reform Social Security well before it becomes insolvent in the 2030s. But as Jeanne Sahadi explains in a...
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Jun 17, 2014 | Blog Paper Press Release | Social Security

Senators Begich and Murray Propose Social Security Benefit Enhancements

Last week, Senator Mark Begich (D-AK) and Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced legislation that would make targeted increases...
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May 30, 2014 | Blog Paper Press Release | Social Security

Delaney and Cole Propose Social Security Commission

Reps. John Delaney (D-MD) and Tom Cole (R-OK) introduced the Social Security Commission Act of 2014 today, which would establish a statutory...
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May 15, 2014 | Blog Paper Press Release | Health Care| Social Security

Rubio Proposes Retirement Program Reforms

As the Senate works this week to increase the debt , Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) outlined a series of reforms to Social Security, Medicare, and...
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May 14, 2014 | Blog Paper Press Release | Social Security| Taxes

Social Security's Worsening Financial Picture Since 2011

We have already shown how both federal health care spending and revenue projections have been revised downward by $900 billion and $4.2 trillion,...
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May 13, 2014 | Blog Paper Press Release | Social Security| Other Spending| Budget Process

Adding "TRUSTGO" to PAYGO Would Improve the Debt Situation

We have always have been proponents of paying for the costs of policies such as the tax extenders and doc fixes , since doing so would make a...
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Apr 23, 2014 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Social Security| Other Spending

Good News and Bad News for Federal Trust Funds

CBO’s latest budget outlook contained good news and bad news for some of the federal government’s largest trust funds. First, the bad...
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Mar 10, 2014 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Health Care| Social Security| Taxes| Other Spending

How Low Could Debt Go?

We talked last week about several policies making their first appearance in the President's budget. What we didn't mention is that in addition to...
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Feb 20, 2014 | Blog Paper Press Release | Social Security

Chained CPI Not in President's FY2015 Budget

Today, the White House announced that the President will not propose adopting the “chained CPI” in the President’s Budget this year...
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