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This year’s Social Security Trustees Report has taken a major step towards offering a more realistic assessment of Social Security’s financial status. Unfortunately, the Trustees “offsetting” assumptions mask the full impact of their important changes…
It might be nice to reduce the large share of benefits going to high earners who retire later and live long lives. To read about our federal finances, one would think we had been overtaken by forces beyond our control: extremely expensive healthcare programs, ever-growing interest payments on our debt, and runaway Social Security benefits…
