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The brief’s key findings are: Many policy experts support targeted changes to Social Security benefits for vulnerable groups, such as caregivers, widows, the very old, and low earners Several of these changes have been endorsed by bipartisan groups, which indicates the potential for widespread support. Such changes, by themselves, would raise Social Security’s long-term deficit. But if…
Abstract The Earnings Public-Use File (EPUF) contains complete information on annual Social Security-covered earnings for a sample of 3.13 million Americans who had earnings in at least one year between 1951 and 2006. The panel data are used to examine patterns and trends in lifetime earnings. The EPUF data show the increasing convergence of fema…