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Social Security in the Cross Hairs: Overestimating the Deficit  

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January 19, 2016

New estimates make the problem sound insoluble. My sense is that Social Security may be at risk after the November elections.  Critics are writing op-eds saying that benefits – relative to previous earnings – are very high, and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has come out with an astounding estimate of the 75-year deficit.  T…