Retirement and disability funds face depletion in the next decade, with Congress urged to act to correct the looming ...

The annual report forecasts the date when the trust funds will run out of money, triggering sharp automatic cuts in benefits.

Recent news that Social Security funds may run out for Americans in the program raises an important question: What is Social Security?

Social Security will not be able to fully pay monthly benefits to tens of millions of retirees and people with disabilities in 2034 if lawmakers don’t act to address the program’s pending shortfall, ...

When Franklin Roosevelt ... Social Security would be outright toxic. Raising the retirement age? Letting the trust fund run dry, triggering a 20% benefit cut? Neither is politically attractive ...

The United States may still be the only industrialized nation without universal healthcare, but we do have a pay-as-you-go ...

At the same time, the SSA is under pressure to act. Without ... us not to depend on Social Security,” she said. “But here we are more than 50 years later and it’s still going.” ...

If the Social Security Fairness Act does get over the finish line in the Senate, it would head to President Joe Biden’s desk. The changes would be effective for benefits payable after December 2023.

President Donald Trump's announcement is the administration's latest move in its concerted effort to shift the people and ...

Yes, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. But the far bigger menace is the monstrous growth in wealth concentration over ...

President Trump’s use of the National Guard to respond to protests in California is raising questions about the extent he’ll go to respond to scrutiny of his immigration policies.

America’s leaders in the 1930s subjected the country to a series of bizarre economic experiments. Most of them backfired.