Social Security

The Connecticut legislature is considering a bill that create a publicly administered retirement plan that would be open to anyone who works at a company with more than five …

The FICA payroll tax may be the most regressive tax in the developed world: The least a progressive administration could do would be to remove the taxable maximum.

According to a pool, 36 percent of workers have less than $1,000 saved for their retirement.

There never was a Golden Age of purely voluntary, and what charitable support mechanisms existed were not up to the challenges of the Second Industrial Revolution of the late …

Abby Huntsman has bought the banksters' big lie hook, line, and sinker and now she's pushing it live on national TV.

Dean Baker: As long as the wealthy can focus public debate on retirement benefits for ordinary workers, they can keep the focus away from the policies that allow them …

The austerity mania that plagued our political system for four years is finally subsiding.

There are two debates underway about President Obama's upcoming budget: One involves the President's proclamation that this budget will signal the “end of austerity,” while the other involves the …

President Obama's budget is scheduled to be released on March 4, and a critical question remains unanswered. Will he or won't he reprise the “chained CPI” cut to Social …

In the coming weeks, the president is expected to announce his new budget plan for fiscal year 2015, again putting Social Security at risk.