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Social Security Price Indexing Proposal Means Benefit Cuts for Workers
William E. Spriggs, David Ratner, Economic Policy Institute, 6/1/2005
How progressive price indexing would affect different groups of workers by gender, race, location, and other factors.
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An Analysis of Using "Progressive Price Indexing" To Set Social Security Benefits
Jason Furman, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 3/21/2005
Analysis of a change to Social Security's benefit structure proposed by Robert Pozen.
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Proposed Social Security Price Indexing Would Slash Benefits
Amy Chasanov, Economic Policy Institute, 2/9/2005
Analysis of recent CRS data showing how benefits for today's retirees would have been cut if price-indexing had been used.
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Back to the Future: The Harsh Reality Underlying a Proposed Change in Social Security
Bernard Wasow, Martha Paskoff Welsh, The Century Foundation, 2/3/2005
How price-indexing would negatively affect living standards for retirees.
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So-Called "Price Indexing" Proposal Would Result In Deep Reductions Over Time In Social Security Benefits
Robert Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 1/28/2005
If initial benefits are indexed to prices instead of wages, Social Security benefits will shrink dramatically over time as a share of workers' pre-retirement wages.
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Estimated Effect of Price-Indexing Social Security Benefits on the Number of Americans 65 and Older in Poverty
Congressional Research Service, 1/28/2005
The effects that price indexing initial Social Security benefits from 1940 would have had on the number of Americans age 65 and older in poverty in 2003.
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The Beginning of Social Security's End?
Bernard Wasow, The Century Foundation, 1/10/2005
Price indexing Social Security benefits would result in deeper benefit cuts than doing nothing to fix the system.
A Bogus Social Security Reform: The Standard of Living Freeze
Bernard Wasow, The Century Foundation, 12/16/2004
The White House has suggested it may cut benefits through price-indexing, a move that would severely erode seniors' living standards.
The Effect of Using Price Indexation Instead of Wage Indexation in Calculating the Initial Social Security Benefit
AARP, 6/1/2002
AARP examines the effect of price indexation on future workers’ initial benefits and replacement rates.
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