Commentary: We don’t have 10 years to think about our Social Security insolvency problem
by Brenton Smith, Chicago Tribune
Jul 07, 2023
3 minutes
It has been nearly 40 years since Congress was able to find common ground on the future of Social Security. While millions of people depend on the system as a lifeline, politicians have done little to slow the erosion of the program’s finances.
If the projections in the latest trustees report come to pass, the program without change would pay promised benefits into 2033, at which point the incoming revenue would
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