Tag: Social Security benefits
Social Security and unemployment insurance provide critical protection. Social insurance is the best way to protect people against risks small and large, predictable and unforeseen, routine and calamitous. It provides a framework for broad-based participation, contributions from both the high-paid and low-paid, and a steady source of benefits when the time comes. Given the nation’s…
Fortunately, legislators are already proposing fixes. I understand that not everyone savors, with as much enthusiasm as I do, testimony by Steve Goss, Social Security’s Chief Actuary. But I always find it very helpful. His most recent appearance before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security touched on a number of ways that…
