Benefit Programs

As things stand now, the Social Security trust fund will run out of cash in 2033 or ‘34, reducing everyone's checks by 23 percent. Nevertheless, federal politicians are afraid to fix Social Security to prevent the future shortfall. ...

When the words Build, Back, and Better are pressed together into a proposed federal law, it is difficult to tell on the surface what to make of it. Here's our analysis....

Sometimes government payments actually do help needy and deserving recipients; sometimes not. We lay out a better way to serve Americans without doing them the disservice of making them dependent....