Preserving and strengthening Social Security for Washington State
Image: Alpha Stock Images via Picpedia.org/Creative Commons, http://www.picpedia.org/clipboard/images/social-security.jpg The crux of the conservative attack on Social Security in recent years has been the claim that the program is on an unbroken path to insolvency. Monday’s release of the Social Security trustees’ annual report knocks a pillar out from under that campaign, for it shows that …
Continue reading Surprise! Social Security has gotten healthier
2019 Trustees Report shows strong bottom line, low cost The just-released 2019 Social Security Trustees Report lands with a thud – literally – because it’s 270 pages long. But fear not, the key takeaways are straightforward: Social Security has a large accumulated surplus – totaling $2.9 trillion – that is sufficient for 100 percent funding …
Continue reading For first time in years, Congress actively planning to improve Social Security
Authored by Nancy Altman, President, Social Security Works Representative John Larson (D-CT), Chairman of the Social Security Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee, is holding historic hearings on expanding Social Security. These are the first such hearings in nearly half a century. At the hearings, Republican members of Congress are cloaking their desire …
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