Tag: COVID-19
The majority of Americans who have health insurance – some 150 million workers – get their coverage through their employers. But this network has suddenly developed a big hole in the midst of a pandemic. The economic shutdown that is suppressing the coronavirus has thrown nearly 30 million people out of work – and taken…
Will it shift the long-run curves or accelerate the date of depletion of the trust fund? A frequent question from the press is how the COVID-19 pandemic will affect Social Security finances. (This topic was not covered in the Trustees Report released last week, as the report was prepared before the pandemic). Of course, no…
