Social Security

How to Prepare for the End of Social Security | U.S. News & World Report

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:32:00 -0400

... fastest-growing poverty group in the United States...so we're going to have to spend a lot of money on the elderly," says Phillip Longman, author of Born to Pay: The New Politics of Aging in America and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.

The Right's Social Security Scare Tactics

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:47:00 -0400

Which Party Will Attract the Busted Boomers?

Cecille Isidro — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:40:00 -0400

While 2008 will go down as a year of hope and change in American politics, the collapse of Wall Street and bursting of the housing bubble will probably mean that fear and anger take center stage in the 2010 elections. If so, the most coveted swing voters may soon be the Busted Boomers - individuals 50 and older who placed supreme faith in the financial markets and now find their long-held dreams of a comfortable retirement eviscerated.

Obama Budget to Spark Fight in US Congress | Reuters

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:10:00 -0500

"It won't be smooth sailing," predicted Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which wants tough controls to bring down deficit spending and reform expensive programs like Social Security and the Medicare ...

The End of the Ownership Society?

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:08:00 -0500

In his second inaugural address, President Bush offered a vision of an "ownership society"

An Economic Bill of Rights

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:19:00 -0500

On January 11, 1944, in his annual State of the Union Address, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called for an economic bill of rights. The rise of totalitarianism, he said, had taught the lesson that "necessitous men are not free men" because the miserable and the desperate "are the stuff out of which dictatorships are made." According to Roosevelt, "In our days these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of

Financial Report: Entitlement Programs Underfunded by Trillions

Communications — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:43:00 -0500

Transcript: Social Policy After the Economic Crisis

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:11:00 -0500

NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION HOLDS A CONFERENCE
ON SOCIAL POLICY AFTER THE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS

DECEMBER 5, 2008

SPEAKERS: MICHAEL CALABRESE,
VICE PRESIDENT, NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION

LEN NICHOLS, DIRECTOR,
HEALTH POLICY PROGRAM, NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION

MAYA MACGUINEAS, DIRECTOR, FISCAL POLICY PROGRAM,
NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION, PRESIDENT,
COMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE FEDERAL BUDGET

MARK IWRY,

Phillip Longman in CQ Researcher | 'Declining Birthrates'

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:35:00 -0500

Compared to the $1 out of every $7 in payroll now distributed in the United States to Social Security and Medicare, workers could see $4 out of every $10 going to support those benefits, Phillip Longman, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, warns in his book The Empty Cradle. LINK (subscription required)