Social Security links What Is Social Security? What Really Supports the Elderly? Social Security: What’s in It for Younger People? Una Prueba: ¿Que Le Ofrece El Seguro Social A Las Personas Jovenes? Packet Summary–English [Below–August 2019]; Español [August 2001] SOCIAL SECURITY VS. SOCIAL INSECURITY: A Social Security Packet: Summary and Update [rev. 8/19] What is… Read More NJFAC Social Security Packet and Links
By Mark Weisbrot The debate over Social Security has never really been about the numbers. Almost all of the participants have chosen to accept the projections of Social Security’s Trustees, and make their arguments from there. It’s hard enough to straighten out the massive confusion that Social Security’s enemies have sown for all these years… Read More Social Security: Can the Trustees be Trusted?
Uncommon Sense #21: (rev.) by Richard B. Du Boff, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Bryn Mawr College By any standard, Social Security is the most successful social program ever enacted in the United States, guaranteeing a measure of basic security for nearly all workers and their families. For nearly two-thirds of the elderly, Social Security provides… Read More “Social Security Is Not in “Crisis”
NJFAC Reprint Series 6 Christian Weller, Economic Policy Institute, March 27, 2002. Article at EPI website.
NJFAC Reprint Series 3 Helen Lachs Ginsburg Adapted from testimony to the New York City Council, Subcommittee on Federal Affairs, © April 29, 1998. Before Social Security was enacted, organized business and Republicans bitterly opposed it. For example, Congressman John Taber, R-NY, said in 1935: “Never in the history of the world has any measure… Read More “Social Security: The Phony Crisis”
