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To Make Social Security Disability Insurance Fairer and Sustainable,...
Teaser: Factoring societal and technological advances into the disability determinations process will end Disability Insurance’s unsustainable expansion and restore fairness to our nation’s critical...
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How Government Debt Disinherited the Next Generation…and How To Fix It
Teaser: Burdened with an obligation to pay government debt they did not incur, young Americans – those born between the early 1980s and the beginning of the 21stcentury, or millennials – begin life at...
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Millennials Can't Afford to Ignore Washington
Teaser: Tens of Millions Americans between the ages of 18 and 30, commonly known as Millennials, are about to enter the workforce. However, Washington has ensured that their economic situation for the...
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The Social Security Trustees’ Respectable Projection Record (Part 1)
Teaser: The Social Security annual trustees' report has become increasingly telling of the program's financial condition. This piece reviews some of the critiques pertaining to the trustees' projection...
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The Social Security Trustees’ Projection Process: Imperfect but Indispensable...
Teaser: The Social Security trustees' projection process has faced much scrutiny. In his second article of a two-part series, Blahous summarizes the criticisms of this process and ultimately draws...
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A Conservative Opportunity Agenda
Teaser: There is an emerging consensus from both political parties that Washington needs to address economic opportunity in the form of public policy. Yet, conservative approaches to this country's...
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Watch Out Clinton, Here Comes Bernienomics
Teaser: Progressives are experiencing a renaissance. First, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was chosen as their new hero, and now Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT),...
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Time is Running Out to Fix Social Security
Teaser: This column summarizes key information from this year’s Social Security report. Last week saw the publication of the annual Social Security and Medicare trustees’ reports, along with an...
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A Warning from the Medicare Trustees
Teaser: My most recent article for e21 summarized the 2015 Social Security trustees’ report released last week. This companion piece does the same for the Medicare report. These are the last annual...
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Hillary's Long-Term Growth Plan Ignores Granddaughter Charlotte
Teaser: Clinton clearly missed the memo on the need for tax simplification.Hillary Clinton wants to rein in short-termism on Wall Street: the tendency of corporate executives to focus on quarterly...
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Six Mistakes Paul Krugman Makes About Medicare's Finances
Teaser: Dr. Krugman’s piece reaches incorrect conclusions about entitlement spending challenges “disappearing” based on incomplete information and analysis.My usual custom when writing about Medicare...
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The Unprecedented Debt Burdens Facing Millennials
Teaser: Summary of testimony before the House Budget CommitteeThis is a summary of testimony before the House Budget Committee. Read the full testimony here.Chairman Price, Vice-Chairman Rokita,...
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An Overdue Budget Reform: Prohibit Double-Counting of Medicare Savings
Teaser: There is no shortage of ideas on how to improve the federal budget process; it is difficult to get bipartisan agreement on most of them.Key members of Congress, notably the chairs of the budget...
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Sanders Explains 'Democratic Socialism,' Students Smitten
Teaser: With his second-place standing in the polls solidified, many are wondering what would happen in a Sanders economy, and what exactly is democratic socialism.Democratic presidential candidate...
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Future Work Still Needed after Budget’s Disability Fix
Teaser: Passage puts the program in better condition but it will rapidly grow worse unless legislators enact further Social Security reforms in short order.The bipartisan budget bill just passed by...
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