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The Future Of Social Security: Principles To Guide Reform, Kathryn L. Moore
The Future Of Social Security: Principles To Guide Reform, Kathryn L. Moore
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On February 12, 2008, the nation's first Baby Boomer, Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, was the first of her generation to receive a Social Security retirement benefit. Born one second after midnight on January 1, 1946, Ms. Casey-Kirschling was born just eleven years after the Social Security system was originally enacted, nine years after the first Social Security payroll taxes were collected, and six years after the system first began to pay monthly retirement benefits.
"As the nation's first Baby Boomer, Ms. Casey-Kirschling is leading what is often referred to as America's silver tsunami. Over the next two decades, nearly eighty million Americans …
Raising The Social Security Retirement Ages: Weighing The Costs And Benefits, Kathryn L. Moore
Raising The Social Security Retirement Ages: Weighing The Costs And Benefits, Kathryn L. Moore
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The Social Security program faces a long-term funding deficit. The Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors and Disability Insurance ("OASDI") Trust Funds predicts that unless corrective action is taken, Social Security benefit payments will exceed dedicated tax revenues by the year 2015, and the Social Security program will become insolvent—unable to pay promised benefits in full-by the year 2037. As a result of this projected deficit, Social Security has become "a lightning rod for far reaching reform proposals."
Proposals range from "traditional" proposals that would maintain the basics of the program's revenue and benefit structure but would …