Ben Ritz of the Concord Coalition delivers a nice wrap-up of the 2014 Social Security Trustees Report as well as making the case for reform.
You can check out his piece here.
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
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Occasional comments on the economics and politics of Social Security policy by Andrew Biggs.
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- Andrew G. Biggs
- I am a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, where my work focuses on Social Security policy. Previously I held several positions within the Social Security Administration, including Deputy Commissioner for Policy and principal Deputy Commissioner. Prior to that I was a Social Security Analyst at the Cato Institute. In 2005 I worked on Social Security reform at the White House National Economic Council, and in 2001 I was on the staff of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security. My Bachelor's degree is from the Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. I have Master's degrees from Cambridge University and the University of London and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. I can be contacted at andrew.biggs @ aei.org.
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I learned in 6th grade that the technique they have used to select the origin of the y-axis on their chart is a technique used to make deceptive charts.
It is time to do something, but the solution is not really so difficult. It does not relly even require changes that need to be called reform. We just need to make some adjustments.
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