Tag: Social Security
Abstract Americans’ indebtedness has increased dramatically since the 1980s – a trend likely to have important implications for retirement security. This study finds that older adults with debt are 8 percentage points more likely to work and 2 percentage points less likely to receive Social Security benefits than those without debt. Not only does t…
The brief’s key findings are: Some have advocated investing Social Security trust fund assets in equities. A similar proposal adopted by the railroads in 2001 suggests two key hurdles: political risk and financial risk. For political risk, the railroads created an independent trust; a better fit for Social Security might be to limit investments to…
