In Focus

For reporting on misleading statements and lies about Social Security in the media and by politicians and officials, visit our blog the Social Security Monitor.

Reports

Raising the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap: How Many Workers Would Pay More?

January 2013, Nicole Woo, Janelle Jones and John Schmitt

The Chained CPI: A Painful Cut in Social Security Benefits and a Stealth Tax Hike

December 2012, Alan Barber and Nicole Woo

Supplemental Security Income for Children with Disabilities

November 2012, Shawn Fremstad and Rebecca Vallas

Debt, Deficits, and Demographics: Why We Can Afford the Social Contract

November 2012, Dean Baker

Caring for Caregivers in Retirement: Social Security Works for Direct Care Workers

July 2012, Shawn Fremstad

Blogs

CEPR News, March 2013

Contra the Crowd-Out Thesis: Countries that Spent More on Seniors Also Spend More on Children

New CBO Estimates Show How Shifting to Chained CPI Would Harm Poorly Compensated Workers and Others Struggling to Afford the Basics

Let’s Not Make a Deal

CEPR News February 2013

Op-Eds & Columns

Obama Accepts the Agenda of Misguided Washington Elites

Dean Baker
Debate Club (U.S. News & World Report), April 11, 2013

The Attack on Social Security and Disability: Profiting From Mistakes

Dean Baker
The Exchange (Yahoo! Finance), April 4, 2013

Senate Unanimously Votes Against Cuts to Social Security: Media Don’t Notice

Dean Baker
Truthout, March 25, 2013

Worms, Pond Scum and Economists

Dean Baker
Truthout, March 18, 2013

Economists and Future Living Standards

Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, March 18, 2013

Events

The Safety Net, Sequestration and Austerity Politics

Cost-of-Living Adjustments and Federal Benefits: Understanding the Full Implications of Change

The Future of Economic Security: Work and Social Insurance

The Future of Social Security with Dean Baker

Return Assumptions on New Mexico Pension Plans

The Future of Social Security and Medicare

Future of Retirement Security

The Future of Entitlement Programs

Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers

Looking Ahead: State Leaders, National Experts Separate Fact From Fiction on Public Pensions

Press Releases

Dean Baker Statement on the Chained CPI and the President's Budget

 April 5, 2013

Statement on the Financial Transaction Tax and Harkin-Defazio Bill

February 28, 2013

The Effects of Raising the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap

January 24, 2013

Chained CPI Cuts Social Security Benefits While Raising Taxes on the Middle Class

December 13, 2012

Statement on the Social Security COLA

October 16, 2012

Latest Press Hits

• Democrats Hide When Asked About Ending High-Income Loophole to Assure Social Security’s Future
  Remapping Debate, April 10, 2013


• How Obama's Plan for Chained CPI Is Both a Stealth Tax on the Middle Class and a Cut in Benefits for Grandma
  Business Insider, April 09, 2013


• Medicare Uncovered: What’s Not on the Table
  Columbia Journalism Review, April 09, 2013


• Robert Reich's Petition to President Obama: Don't Hurt Seniors With a Chained CPI Benefit Cut to Social Security
  Huffington Post, April 09, 2013


• Hell No! No Grand Bargain: Chained CPI: Social Security Means So Much To So Many
  Daily Kos, April 08, 2013