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Many more Americans are getting Social Security disability payments today than before the Great Recession, nearly two million. But that upturn also reflects long-term trends. About 5.4% of the civilian workforce ages 25 to 64 are on disability insurance, according … read more
President Obama’s fiscal 2014 budget plan includes some significant steps towards restraining federal entitlement spending, including indexing Social Security benefits to the chained CPI and increasing premiums for high-income Medicare beneficiaries. Of course, some people believe that the president’s modest … read more
The issue is a program that induces even high income Americans to get a third of their retirement income from the government and spend a third of their adult lives in retirement. Reform doesn’t mean indiscriminate cuts like the chained CPI. But it doesn’t mean uninformed defenses of the current program, either.
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Experts from the US, Europe, Canada, and Asia will address efforts to moderate housing cycles using countercyclical lending policies.
At this event, three expert panelists will examine this relationship from the perspectives of influential philosophers such as Aristotle, Alexis de Tocqueville, and representatives of the Scottish Enlightenment.
At this event, panelists will address pension reform challenges by presenting the results of three research papers commissioned by AEI through a generous grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation.
