Last year, program trustees projected that, beginning in 2033, Social Security’s trust fund will be depleted and insufficient to pay retirement benefits. Medicare faces an even more immediate crisis, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Elizabeth Bauer is an actuary who writes about retirement policy. After all, social insurance might sound like it is simply ...

Republicans and Democrats have very different ideas about social insurance programs such as unemployment compensation, Social Security, Medicare and food stamps. Democrats would like to see the scope ...

Social Security’s Disability Insurance (SSDI) program has existed for nearly 60 years. Over that time, it has morphed from a relatively small-scale, anti-poverty program into a massive system that ...

For nearly 100 years, the United States has maintained one of the world’s more successful models of social insurance, protecting Americans from the death of a spouse or parent, disability and old age ...

Rebecca D. Vallas, Director of Policy, Poverty to Prosperity Program, testified before the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee. Rebecca D. Vallas, Director of Policy, Poverty to Prosperity Program, ...

Reimagining Our Social Contract: The Safety Net Is Social Insurance for All Americans When four in five Americans will experience at least one year of poverty, near poverty, unemployment, or the ...

The United States is unique among the world’s rich countries in lacking a comprehensive, universal social insurance system. This state of affairs is largely due to ideological opposition by Republican ...

Federal and state policymakers increasingly are interested in creating a public social insurance program for long-term care in the US. Even some Democratic presidential hopefuls have raised the issue, ...