Ezra Klein Archive: Social Security
White House calls for Social Security talks
This hasn't gotten a ton of attention, but the budget includes a pretty explicit call for Congress and the administration to commence talks on Social Security reform. The administration even lays out its starting position: The President believes that we...
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| February 14, 2011; 3:17 PM ET |
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Boehner backs off Social Security cuts
The big concern that progressives had going into the State of the Union address was that President Obama would propose cuts to Social Security. That didn't happen. And now, a few days after the State of the Union, John...
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| January 27, 2011; 12:19 PM ET |
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The payroll tax cut, Social Security and the problem of the trust fund
The tax deal cuts employee-side payroll taxes by two percentage points in 2011. This won't harm Social Security, or at least it shouldn't harm Social Security, because the money will just be replaced by general fund revenues (confused yet?). All...
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| December 9, 2010; 11:23 AM ET |
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Column: We don't have a Social Security problem. We have a retirement-security problem.
For anyone who would like to retire someday, reading the news can be depressing. There's the Social Security shortfall, of course, and the reports that pensions promised to state employees are terribly underfunded. The financial crisis wiped out plenty...
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| November 29, 2010; 3:00 PM ET |
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The future of Social Security in one graph
This comes from the Strengthen Social Security Campaign, and it lists the impact of all of the various deficit-reduction plans on a medium-income Social Security beneficiary (click for a larger version): It's worth noting that the "current law" line is...
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| November 23, 2010; 10:00 AM ET |
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The progressive case for Social Security reform
Kevin Drum notes that the strategy to privatize Social Security has always relied on conflating privatization with solvency (the two are not related, and privatization actually worsens the immediate shortfall), and that progressives might want to think about cutting that...
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| November 19, 2010; 9:21 AM ET |
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