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

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

The Kids Will Be Rich, Unless Peter Peterson’s Kids Take Their Money

Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, March 5, 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

• 7 Chilling Facts About Retirement in America That Should Make Obama Tremble Before Cutting Social Security and Medicare
  Alternet, April 07, 2013


• Obama’s Social Security Cuts Are Our Wake-Up Call
  Campaign for America's Future Blog, April 07, 2013


• "There's No Such Thing as a Neutral Story. But There Is Such a Thing as an Honest Story."
  Daily Kos, April 06, 2013


• Chained CPI Could Cost Retiree $650/Yr
  Big News Network, April 06, 2013


• Quick Hits on Politics & More in RI
  WPRI.com, April 06, 2013