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Parental Leave through Social Security: A Response to Critics
The proposal holds up well to various attacks from left and right.
The Washington Post Gets Retirement Wrong
The American retirement system is far from perfect, but a lot of things are going in the right direction.
Would Social Security Expansion Gut the Economy?
Boosting pensions would be bad for Canada's economy; boosting Social Security would be even worse for the U.S.
On Social Security, Bernie Sanders Is Now the Leader of the Democratic Party
Sanders & Clinton have embraced a completely unserious position on the government’s largest spending program: Social Security.
Entitlement Reform after Trump
The need of it will remain no matter who becomes president.
A Social Security Reform Plan That Can Pass
The core of the flat benefit plan to reform Social Security is a gradual shifting of benefits away from the current formula and toward flat dollar benefits.
Social Security Reform: A Conservative Plan
Social Security should guarantee all retirees a minimum pension that can be augmented with private savings.
The Easy Way to Entitlement Reform: Simply Assume Massive Cuts
Progressives can assume that Social Security and Medicare benefits will stay the same, or that they will decrease sharply, depending on what they are trying to prove.
Unemployment Is Down, Yes, but So Are Wages
The unemployment rate has fallen from a high of 10.0 percent in October 2009 to just 5.6 percent today. And, in what news reports called an “astonishing performance,” the U.S. ...