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The Social Security Trust Fund and Other Fictions

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Reforming Social Security: A Proposal for Sustainability

This chapter examines the significant fiscal challenges confronting the Social Security system in the U.S. It proposes reforms to the benefit calculation formula that could help close the funding gap while maintaining equitable benefits for seniors, focusing on inflation indexing over wage indexing.

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