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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…...
Medicare Is on Track to Add $85 Trillion to the National Debt by 2056
1+ week, 5+ day ago (270+ words) From 2026 through 2035, the Trustees now project an additional $731 billion in Part D spending compared with last year’s estimate, a 34 percent increase. Figure 1 shows the revision year by year. The Debt Contribution: The Next 10 to 30 Years The Financial Report of the…...
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…...
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…...