Social Security is a popular but expensive program. With the trust fund facing depletion in just a few years, experts have ...

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Social Security has long been a cornerstone of financial security for retirees in the United States. However, recent proposals to reform the system have sparked significant outrage among retirees.

Social Security’s Depression-era retirement earnings test continues to discourage work among older Americans by functioning like an additional 50 percent tax. But, in contrast to having too many ...

On Jan. 3, the best proposal I’ve seen for making Social Security secure was made public. Don’t feel badly if you didn’t notice it, however. Few did. Even today it has received minimal media coverage.

The Trump administration is proposing the biggest cuts in a half-century to federal financial aid by reducing Pell Grant award amounts for low-income college students, plus the government’s ...