Most people pay a Social Security tax of 6.2 percent on their income throughout the year, on every...
Social Security
President Obama’s 2016 budget relatively good on Social...
While the President’s proposed Medicare policies leave a lot to be desired, he gets it right on...
More Americans planning to work past age 65
More Americans are planning to delay retirement and work longer. A 2014 CBS news poll shows...
For a wealthy country, the US offers stingy Social Security...
A new chart from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development highlights how meager...
Strengthen Social Security by restoring the minimum wage
Fact: If today’s minimum wage were the same as the minimum wage in 1969 (adjusted for...
Strong support for Social Security across broad swath of...
A new survey by the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) to understand Americans’ views...
Why Congress should increase the minimum wage to its 1968 level
A new report by the Economic Policy Institute illustrates why Congress should increase the minimum...
Chained CPI reduces Social Security benefits and income
Fact: A chained CPI (“consumer price index”) is a way of calculating cost-of-living...
A strong majority of likely voters support increasing Social...
A recent poll of likely voters shows that nearly four out of five of them support increasing...
Trustees project Social Security Trust Fund to last until 2033
In its annual Social Security report published yesterday, the Trustees calculated that the Social...