For today’s podcast, I was happy to speak to two of the long-time fighters to expand Social Security, Nancy Altman and Eric Kingson, about their new book, just out from The New Press, Social Sec
It seems that Pete DuPont was in fact still alive until yesterday. Who knew! Anyway, here’s a 1988 DuPont campaign ad pushing an early version of what George W. Bush would try–privatizing
This is the grave of Allen Treadway. For the most part, Allen Treadway is not particularly interesting. He was a long-time congressman from Massachusetts. He was born in 1867 in Stockbridge, Massachus
Gregory Wood’s Retiring Men examines the intersection between masculinity, work, and retirement in the first six decades of the twentieth century. He argues that the crisis over retirement in a
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, bringing the modern welfare state to the American people and providing the nation’s poor long-desired old age
Obama’s caving on chained CPI and allowing reductions to Medicare so he can achieve his long-desired grand bargain is a terrible idea, not only on the merits but on the politics. It isn’t
Yglesias is dead on that the best way for people to “invest” in their retirement is a functioning social security system. The average person probably doesn’t have the time, skills, a
When both Rick Perry and Glenn Reynolds embrace an argument you know it’s going to be uniquely stupid: RICK PERRY CALLS SOCIAL SECURITY A PONZI SCHEME. Well, I have heard Yale Law Professor John