In Focus

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Reports

The Facts on Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income for Workers with Disabilities

May 2013, Shawn Fremstad, Rebecca Vallas

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

Blogs

The CRFB's Social Security "Reformer"

CEPR News May 2013

Social Security and Medicare Taxes Won't be Disastrous for the Young

The Financial Health of Public Pensions

CEPR News April 2013

Op-Eds & Columns

Celebrate the Defeat of the Granny Bashers!

Dean Baker
Truthout, June 17, 2013

Time to Retire Greenspan and Trichet’s Pensions

Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 3, 2013
En Español

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

• Fred Hiatt Outs Self As Total Social Safety Net Hysterian
  EconoSpeak, June 18, 2013


• Strengthen Social Security and Medicare -- Don't "Reform" Them
  Huffington Post, June 18, 2013


• Congressman Gosar Does More Harm Than Good
  Payson Roundup, June 14, 2013


• Crisis Withdrawal Syndrome
  Conscience of a Liberal (The New York Times), June 08, 2013


• Social Security Report Takeaway: Keep Calm and Strengthen Benefits
  Common Dreams, June 02, 2013