Social Security and Medicare Reports Little Changed from 2012

CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker noted in a recent analysis of the 2013 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Report that the Social Security trust fund will remain fully solvent for the next two decades and will be able to pay over 75 percent of full benefits from then on. Baker also pointed out that the projected Medicare shortfall has fallen by almost 70 percent since 2008. For more, see CEPR's latest Social Security Byte.

Statistical Study Shows That First Audit of Venezuelan Election is Decisive

A statistical analysis of the voting machine audit from Venezuela’s April 14 election, done on the day of the election, shows that this audit was decisive. The odds of getting the April 14 audit result if in fact the unaudited machines contained enough errors to reverse the election outcome are far less than one in 25 thousand trillion