Preserving and strengthening Social Security for Washington State
Image: Trending Topics 2019 via Flickr Creative Commons: https://flic.kr/p/24FwVBa [Cross-posted from CBPP] Discussions of Social Security often pit younger workers against older retirees, but Social Security is actually an intergenerational compact that helps Americans of all ages — which explains its enduring popularity among all generations. There are 73 million millennials (now aged 23 to …
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Image: Bruce Bortin via Flickr Creative Commons, https://flic.kr/p/uFoHq Social Security isn’t going bankrupt. Even after 2034 (when the Trust Fund is projected to be fully depleted) benefits will still be paid -- but it may not be able to pay all of what retirees put in and were promised. And that, according to many polls, …
Image by Tumisu (pixabay.com) Before you answer that question, consider what Mark Hulbert, columnist for MarketWatch, has to say: The future is unknowable, and uncertainty can certainly be scary. But in a ranking of things to worry about, I would place a number of other uncertainties far higher than whether Social Security “will be there …
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