Social Security

Reports

• The Future of Social Security: Solvency, Work, Adequacy, and Equity (Urban Institute; November 2010)
• Action on Social Security: The Urgent Need for Delay (CEPR; November 2010)
• The Case for Raising Social Security’s Early Retirement Age (AEI; October 2010)
• Social Security at 75: Building Economic Security, Narrowing the Racial Wealth Divide (The Insight Center; August 2010)
• Social Security Keeps 20 Million Americans Out of Poverty: A State-By-State Analysis (CBPP; August 2010)
• When to Take Social Security: Questions to Consider (NASI; January 2010)
• Working Wives Reduce Social Security Replacement Rates (Munnell, Sanzenbacher, and Soto; 2007)
• Are people claiming social security benefits later? (Muldoon and Kopcke; 2008)
• Coping with the Demographic Challenge:Fewer Children and Living Longer (SSA; 2007)
• An Oldie but a Goodie-The Importance of Social Security as Source of Retirement Income (Center for American Progess; 2007)
• Social Security Board of Trustees Issues Annual Report Long-Range Financing Challenges Continue (SSA; 2007)
• The Social Security Fix-It Book (Boston College; 2007)
• Social Security Reform Options (American Academy of Actuaries; 2007)
• Social Security and Retirement Income Adequacy (NASI; 2007)
• Social Security State Statistics (SSA; 2007)
• Can We Afford Social Security when Baby Boomers Retire? (NASI; May 2006)
• Noble Lies, Liberal Purposes, and Personal Retirement Accounts (Social Security; June 2005)
• Social Security: What Role for Life Annuities in Individual Accounts? Issues, Options, and Tradeoffs (NASI; March 2005)
• Women and Social Security (American Academy of Actuaries; June 2007)
• Women Face Challenges in Ensuring Financial Security in Retirement (GAO; 2007)

News and Magazine Articles

• The Great Social Security and Medicare Panic (TIME; 2009)
• Recession Puts a Major Strain on Social Security Trust Fund (Washington Post; 2009)
• Myths and Truths About Social Security (Reyes; 2005)
• A Question of Numbers (NY Times; 2005)

Journal Articles

• Social Security Politics: Ideology and Reform (Svihula and Estes; The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences; 2007)
• Back to the Future: Restoring Economic Security for Workers and Retirees (Polivka; The Gerontologist; 2008)
• What is the Best Way to put Social Security Policymaking into Context? (Achenbaum; The Gerontologist; 2007)
• Crediting Care or Marriage? Reforming Social Security Family Benefits (Herd; The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences; 2006)
• Strengthening Social Security for the Long Run (Ball; 2009)

Congressional Records

• Compilation of the Social Security Laws Volume I (SSA; updated 2009)
• Compilation of the Social Security Laws Volume 2 (SSA; updated 2009)
• Senate Congressional Record-June 15, 1935
• Social Security: Keeping the Promise in the 21st Century (U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging; 2009)

Books

• Social Security and the Family (Urban Institute; 2007)
• The Battle for Social Security (Altman; 2005)
• Social Security: History and Politics from the New Deal to the Privatization Debate (Beland; 2007)
• Social Security: False Consciousness and Crisis (Attarian; 2006)
• Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability: Getting & Keeping Your Benefits (Morton; 2008)

Websites

• The Retirement Security Project (Ongoing)
• National Academy of Social Insurance (Ongoing)