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Debt Digest | Prediction Markets Debt Forecast
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (621+ words) The Debt Dispatch Debt Digest | Prediction Markets Debt Forecast Links & Fiscal Facts Here are this week’s reading links and fiscal facts: Raising taxes is the worst way to address Social Security’s shortfall. Steve Thompson reports in the Washington Post that…...
In the Press: AI Against Fraud, Taxing Millionaires Falls Short of Deficits, and Medicare’s $85 Trillion Tab
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (334+ words) AI must be paired with stronger controls to fight waste, fraud, and abuse In The Center Square, Brett Rowland reports that 60 percent of registered voters back using artificial intelligence to detect fraud, waste, or abuse in programs such as Medicaid....
Welfare Digest | Welfare Reform's Success Holds Up 30 Years Later
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (703+ words) The Debt Dispatch Welfare Digest | Welfare Reform's Success Holds Up 30 Years Later Links & Benefits Breakdowns Here are this week’s reading links and benefits breakdowns: Welfare Reform's Success Holds Up 30 Years Later. The positive effects of the 1996 welfare reforms on work…...
Debt Digest | Borrowing to Fund Social Security is Dangerous
1+ week, 3+ day ago (887+ words) The Debt Dispatch Debt Digest | Borrowing to Fund Social Security is Dangerous Links & Fiscal Facts Here are this week’s reading links and fiscal facts: Borrowing to fund Social Security is dangerous. Jennifer Scholtes and Katherine Tully-McManus report in Politico that…...
In the Press: The $40 Trillion Bill for Young Americans, Falling SNAP enrollment, and Lack of Transparency in Rural Health
2+ week, 18+ hour ago (473+ words) Free the Facts asked ten experts across the ideological spectrum what the $40 trillion national debt means for the next generation. Boccia’s contribution: In Yahoo News, Jasmine Andersson examines which states have shed the most SNAP recipients — enrollment is down more…...
Debt Digest | US Cannot Outgrow $40 trillion In Debt
2+ week, 3+ day ago (832+ words) The Debt Dispatch Debt Digest | US Cannot Outgrow $40 trillion In Debt Links & Fiscal Facts Here are this week’s reading links and fiscal facts: The US cannot outgrow $40 trillion in debt. After the national debt crossed $40 trillion, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent…...
Our New Paper on Social Security and the Federal Debt
3+ week, 2+ day ago (249+ words) The Debt Dispatch Our New Paper on Social Security and the Federal Debt Now available on SSRN. Our Wharton Pension Research Council working paper, “Social Security’s Role in the Federal Debt Explosion: Past, Present, and the Reform Imperative,” is now…...
In the Press: SNAP Accountability, the Social Security Reform Debate, and DOGE’s Failed Savings
3+ week, 3+ day ago (438+ words) In The Unseen and the Unsaid, Jack Salmon argues that the Farm Bill pairs a $1.4 trillion price tag with expanded subsidies and delayed SNAP accountability. He cites Boccia on the risk of backsliding: As the Cato Institute’s Romina Boccia puts…...
Reimagining Social Security, One Year Later
4+ week, 1+ day ago (454+ words) The program has drifted away from its original purpose. Social Security has evolved into an increasingly expensive middle-class income replacement program rather than a focused guarantee against poverty in old age. The financing issues are structural. The shortfall is driven…...