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The 2006 Trustees Report

The 2006 Social Security Trustees Report was released on May 1, 2006. For links to key projections in the report, how it compares with past projections, and news coverage, click here.

 
Annual Bell Has Privatizers Salivating
Bernard Wasow, The Century Foundation, 5/2/2006
Social Security's 2006 Trustees Report confirms we need only adjust the program slightly to accommodate the aging population. Medicare is the real problem.
What The New Trustees’ Report Shows About Social Security
Robert Greenstein, Jason Furman, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 5/1/2006
Analysis of the projections and comparison of Social Security with other reasons for long-range deficits in the federal budget, specifically the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.
Link to Report
Trustees Continue to Assume Slowing Immigration, Weak Productivity
Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research, 5/1/2006
Dean Baker argues that the trustees understate two factors with critical influence on Social Security's long-term solvency: productivity growth and immigration rates.
Link to Issue Brief
Social Security Finances: Findings of the 2006 Trustees Report
Virginia Reno, Anita Cardwell, National Academy of Social Insurance, 5/1/2006
The findings of the 2006 trustees report of the National Academy of Social Insurance.
Link to Issue Brief (PDF)
Will The Administration Claim The Cost Of Fixing Social Security Rose $700 Billion Because Congress Did Not Act Last Year?
Richard Kogan, Robert Greenstein, Jason Furman, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 5/1/2006
President Bush and other Administration officials often repeat inaccurate claims about the costs of delaying action on Social Security.
Link to Report
Social Security's Financial Outlook: The 2006 Update in Perspective
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, 5/1/2006
Putting the intermediate assumptions in this year's Social Security report in perspective.
Link to Report (PDF)
Reforming Social Security Sooner Rather Than Later: Fact and Fiction
Jason Furman, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 4/28/2006
Examines what the costs of delaying reform are, and why privatization plans of the sort proposed last year would do nothing to mitigate those costs, despite proponents' frequent claims.
Link to Report



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