Tag: Elizabeth Warren

Senator Elizabeth Warren addresses crowds with a megaphone outside the Capitol

I love any proposal that puts my preferences clearly in the center.  And Senator Warren did just that with her plans for Social Security.  Just to remind you about Social Security’s finances, the program’s actuaries project a deficit over the next 75 years of 2.78 percent of taxable payrolls.  As shown in Figure 1, this…

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A new Office of Lost and Found could be used to coordinate ongoing government initiatives. The United States needs a national pension registry.   Most other developed countries provide consolidated online information for participants on all their workforce retirement accounts. These pension registries, which include information on both active and inactive accounts, are helpful not only…