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

Making Jobs Good

April 2013, John Schmitt and Janelle Jones

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

Blogs

The Financial Health of Public Pensions

CEPR News April 2013

Labor Market Policy Research Reports, April 13 – 26, 2013

CEPR News, March 2013

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

Op-Eds & Columns

Cutting Social Security and Not Taxing Wall Street

Dean Baker
Truthout, May 15, 2013

Will Social Security Be Unchained? Attacking the Serious People

Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, April 15, 2013

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

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

Five Policies That Could Improve Job Quality in the United States

April 26, 2013

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

Latest Press Hits

• Is the Danish Welfare State Crumbling? Fierce Debate Erupts Over Story in The New York Times
  The Deseret News, May 08, 2013


• Planet 401(k): Tom Friedman’s Bleak Vision
  Columbia Journalism Review, May 03, 2013


• Chained CPI: Privatizion by Another Name
  Huffington Post, May 02, 2013


• Critics on Left and Right Pounce on Social Security 'Fix'
  CNBC, April 30, 2013


• Dansk velfærd er en stor succes
  Information.dk, April 29, 2013