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The claims of widespread fraud don’t hold water. Elon Musk, on the “Joe Rogan Experience,” reiterated the claim that the Social Security numbers of 20 million dead people are being used to steal $100 billion in benefits each year. He keeps repeating this so-called example of fraud, waste, and abuse that he purportedly found at…
New data show strong relationship between earnings and life expectancy. As part of its review of a recent proposal, the Social Security actuaries provided another contribution to the extensive body of evidence showing that life expectancy is positively related to income and that the gap between those at the top and the bottom of t…
