Great Depression provides impetus for creation of Social Security
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EDITOR&#39;S NOTE -- President Bush has made his ambitious proposal to revamp Social Security a priority for his second term. This is one in an occasional series of stories exploring the retirement system, why
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Rising pressure on U.S. finances from an aging population make it vital quickly fix the social safety net with such steps as raising the age for full retirement benefits, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Friday.
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With a new Medicare drug benefit set to begin in 2006, Americans 65 and older can expect to spend a large and growing share of their Social Security checks on
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Third in a series of occasional articles examining the economic and political stakes involved in the Bush administration's proposed overhaul of Social Security.
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In todayÂs self-directed retirement system, it is important to keep tabs on details that can have a big impact on your retirement savings.
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Privatization of Social Security is in the wind. For weeks, the Bush administration has been filling the sky with trial balloons. Unfortunately, the proposals being floated do little to address the two fundamental flaws of Social Security.
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WASHINGTON: An ageing US population will strain public finances and hurt the economy without swift fixes to the social safety net, such as raising the age for full retirement benefits, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said yesterday.
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Description: Shoring up Social Security for the wave of retiring baby boomers is a top priority at President Bush&#39;s economic summit taking place at the White House.
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Three years after President Bush&#39;s Social Security commission proposed adding private investment accounts to the program, the action is heating up.
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The Social Security Administration's Web site and customer service lines are pushing the need to "modernize and reform" the retirement system, saying the future shortfall is "massive and growing," and promoting personal investment accounts as a financial fix.
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The Social Security Administration is preparing a campaign to convince the public that private accounts are needed.
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President Bush has made his ambitious proposal to revamp Social Security a priority for his second term. This is the first part of an occasional series exploring the retirement
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Budget impasses and growing deficit raise concern about long-term economic growth and retiree benefits.
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Social Security, the entitlement that keeps millions of elderly Americans out of poverty with monthly checks gleaned from payroll taxes, ranks as one of Flint Journal readers&#39; top issues in this presidential election.
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For the first time since the Depression, more Americans aged 75 and older have been leaving the South than moving there.
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The US Federal Reserve increases the amount of money available as it seeks to ease the credit crunch.
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Why has fixing Social Security become the epicenter of the US retirement debate while the easily bolstered private retirement system is largely ignored?