Social Security Will Be Insolvent by 2033
New data from the program's trustees show that insolvency will hit a year sooner than previously expected, giving policy makers just a decade before automatic benefit cuts occur.
New data from the program's trustees show that insolvency will hit a year sooner than previously expected, giving policy makers just a decade before automatic benefit cuts occur.
56 percent agreed that "people often graduate without specific job skills and with a large amount of debt to pay off."
If Republicans refuse to gore their three sacred cows, a new CBO report shows that balancing the budget is literally impossible.
Congress' end-of-year rush to fund the federal government has become the norm.
The higher taxes on small businesses and entrepreneurs could slow growth. Less opportunity means more tribalism and division.
But it's exactly what they need to start talking about.
"If it was an emergency, why wait three years to provide the forgiveness? Why present it in a political framework, as fulfilling a campaign promise?" said one higher education expert.
Krugman sees benefit cuts as "a choice" but believes that implementing a massive tax increase on American employers and workers would be "of course" no big deal.
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People can never be made incorruptible. We can, however, design governmental systems filled with checks and balances that limit the temptations.
As legislators refuse to act, benefits will be cut without any possibility of sheltering those seniors who are poor.
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Legislators will increasingly argue over how to spend a diminishing discretionary budget while overall spending simultaneously explodes.
These days, he may run for president. His politics have changed.
Biden vowed to block any attempts to cut Social Security benefits, and Republicans made it clear that they have little appetite to try it.
Fiscal stimulus during the pandemic contributed to an increase in inflation of about 2.6 percentage points.
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Sen. Rand Paul says Republicans "have to give up the sacred cow" of military spending in order to make a deal that will address the debt ceiling and balance the budget.
In 1950, there were more than 16 workers for every beneficiary. In 2035, that ratio will be only 2.3 workers per retiree.
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are still the chief drivers of our future debt. But Republicans aren't touching them.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear 94-year-old Geraldine Tyler's case challenging home equity theft.
Taking stock of the utterly unserious fiscal policy discourse in Washington.
While some Republicans may have had misguided motivations, a few disrupted McCarthy's campaign in order to enact fiscal restraint. Their colleagues were fine with business as usual.
The insurgent Republicans want to balance the budget, impose new barriers to immigration, and increase transparency for future earmark spending.
If lawmakers keep spending like they are, and if the Fed backs down from taming inflation, then the government may create a perfect storm.
The Congressional Budget Office projects that future deficits will explode. But there's a way out.
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If political pressure to forgive debt can work once, why wouldn't it work again every five or 10 years?
The government spent $501 billion in November but collected just $252 billion in revenue, meaning that about 50 cents of every dollar spent were borrowed.
As the Court agrees to take up yet another case against the Education Department's loan forgiveness plan, Biden's goal of forgiving billions in student loans seems increasingly doomed.
Instead of redirecting course, Biden is continuing Trump’s spending legacy.
Private property was the solution to their failed experiment. But people keep repeating the Pilgrims' mistakes.
The biggest beneficiaries of economic growth are poor people. But the deepest case for economic growth is a moral one.
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According to a new report for the Congressional Budget Office, student loan debt forgiveness will likely completely wipe out gains made by the Inflation Reduction Act—and then some.
So much for the idea that low interest rates meant the government could borrow endlessly with no consequences.
James Taylor croons while the stock market burns after another ugly report on inflation.
In six states, accepting student loan forgiveness is likely to result in an increased tax bill.
Government should not penalize investment, thwart competition, discourage innovation and work, or obstruct production.
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