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

The Impact on Inequality of Raising the Social Security Retirement Age
April 2012, David Rosnick and Dean Baker

Pension Liabilities: Fear Tactics and Serious Policy
January 2012, David Rosnick and Dean Baker

Maintaining and Improving Social Security for Direct Care Workers
November 2011, Shawn Fremstad

Plan for a New Future: The Impact of Social Security Reform on People of Color
October 2011, Commission to Modernize Social Security (Maya M. Rockeymoore, Meizhu Lui, Nicole Woo, et. al.)

The Impact of Cutting Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments on the Living Standards of the Elderly
September 2011, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

Blogs

Labor Market Policy Research Reports May 14 - 18, 2012

CEPR in the News April 2012

Labor Market Policy Research Reports, April 9 – 13, 2012

Labor Market Policy Research Reports, March 26 – 30, 2012

AEI Touts the End of the Deficit Problem

Op-Eds & Columns

Everyone Agrees That the Decline in Private-Sector Pay Has Been Understated
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, May 2, 2012

The War on Public Sector Workers
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 16, 2012

Obama and Romney are Politicians, not Visionaries
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 9, 2012

Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Bowles-Simpson Commission Report
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 5, 2012

Time Is On Our Side: The Survival of Social Security
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 16, 2012

Events

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

In Defense of the Social Safety Net

Social Security: The Trust Fund, The Deficit, and Americans' Retirement Security

Press Conference on Impact of Debt Reduction Plans to Social Safety Net Programs

How Will Austerity Affect Middle Class America?

Demystifying Social Security: Academy for Interns 2011

Strengthen Social Security ... Don't Cut It

Is There a Public Pension Crisis?

Press Releases

Proposals Raising the Normal Retirement Age for Social Security Would Lead to Increase in Inequality
April 11, 2012

New Report: The Effects of Cutting Social Security COLAs on the Living Standards of the Elderly
September 20, 2011

Just Like Everyone Else, Politicians Will Be Able to Get Social Security Benefits for Decades to Come
September 9, 2011

Statement on Using the Chained CPI for Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments
July 8, 2011

Debt, Deficits, and the Dollar: 7 Key Facts
June 16, 2011