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SOCIAL SECURITY "Social security is a job when you can work and an income when you can't." William Beveridge, [1943] cited by Robert M. Ball, Social Security Today and Tomorrow.
"The best insurance for Social Security is full employment--jobs for all at decent pay." NJFAC

• NJFAC Social Security Packet and links
• Social Security quiz:What's in It for Younger People?   [interactive]
• Una Prueba: ¿Que Le Ofrece El Seguro Social A Las Personas Jovenes
• Social Security: What's In It for Younger People   [pdf file]
• Social Security flyers No Crisis     Private Accounts
• Americans Make Hard Choices on Social Security, Prefer to Raise Payroll Taxes and Increase Benefits 1/13
• Impact of Cutting Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments on the Living Bad News on Social Security:Standards of the Elderly. Baker & Rosnick CEPR 9/11
• Bad News on Social Security: We're Going to Live Longer, D. Baker response
• The Myth of Early Retirement, EPI 11/11
• Recession, Weak Economy Behind Revision of Social Security's Projected Shortfall to 2033 CEPR, 4/12
• Young Person's Guide to Social Security, NASI, 7/12
• Women and Social Security: Key Facts, NWLC. 5/11
• Social Security: Especially Vital to Women and People of Color, Men Increasingly Reliant, 1/11
• Action on Social Security: The Urgent Need for Delay, Baker, CEPR 11/10
• Why Is It So Acceptable to Lie to Cut Social Security Benefits?, Baker 10/10
• ‘Saving’ Social Security From Its Previous Rescue: The multi-trillion surplus that must never, ever be used, Naureckas, FAIR
• The CEPR Social Security Benefit Calculator
• Fast Facts & Figures About Social Security, 2012, SSA 8/12
• Social Security COLA Cut: A Benefit Cut Affecting Everyone
• Cold Case File: Who Shot Down a 70-Year-Old Attack on Social Security? 10/10
• Social Security Keeps 20 Million Americans Out of Poverty, CBPP 8/10
• Making Sense: Social Security, CAF, 2010
• Social Security and the Federal Deficit, Ballantyne et al, EPI, 8/10
• Top Ten Reasons Not to Raise the Retirement Age, Eisenbrey, EPI 8/10
• Medicare and Medicaid are NOT like Social Security, Anrig, TCF 6/10
• The New War on Social Security, Dean Baker, 4/10
• Does Congress Want to Default on the National Debt?, Baker, 1/10
• There Is No Social Security Crisis, Waldman, TAP, 2/09
• SS Rates and Limits 2013, SSA 10/12
• Expenditures of the Aged Chartbook, 2010, SSA 3/13
• Income of the Aged Chartbook, 2010, SSA 3/12
• Earnings and Employment Data for Workers Covered Under SS & Medicare, by State and County, 2009, SSA 4/12
• OASDI and SSI Program Rates & Limits, 2013, 11/12
• SS Annual Statistical Supplement, 2012, SSA, 2/13
• Social Security Trustees Reports
• Annual Statistical Report on the SS Disability Insurance Program, 2011, 7/12
• SSI Annual Statistical Report, 2011 SSI Recipients by State and County, 2011
• OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County, 2011. 5/12
• OASDI Beneficiaries by State and ZIP Code, 2011, 9/12
• Facts about Social Security 2012, NJFAC, 9/12
• The Impact of Social Security Cuts on Retiree Income, Baker & Rosnick, 7/10
• Social Security Recipients by Congressional District December 2011, 4/12
• Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Europe, 2012. 8/12
• Why SS Trust Fund Balances Grow in a Time of Recession, Webb, 1/10
• Working the graveyard shift: Why raising the Social Security retirement age is not the answer, Morrissey & Garr, EPI 5/09
• Kicking retirees when they're down The Wall Street crew want to cut Social Security and Medicare at a time when US workers need help the most, Baker 1/09
• Memo on American Academy of Actuaries Statement on the Social Security Retirement Age, Langer, 8/08
• The Impact of the Housing Crash on Family Wealth. CEPR, 7/08
• How Monica Lewinsky Saved Social Security, R. Blackburn,10/04
• Reality vs Intermediate Cost vs Low Cost, Webb, 3/08
• Social Security: Still Alive and Kicking, Wasow, TCF 3/08
• The Social Security Scare Squad: Reason to Hate the Media No. 567,945. D. Baker
• Back From The Dead: Privatization, R. Hickey & J. Cruz 8/06
• Social Security shortfalls are suspect, D. R. Francis, CSM
• Social Security's 70th Anniversary: Survivng 20 Years of Reform, Wray, 6/05
• Social Security provides the primary life insurance protection for most children
• Social Security Q & A
• Top Ten Facts on Social Security's 70th Anniversary 8/05
• Four Questions and Answers about the Social Security Trust Funds, the National Debt, and Sound Fiscal Policy TCF, 7/05
• Hispanics’ Large Stake in the Social Security Debate ,CBPP
• Privatized Social Security,  D.R. Francis, CSM 6/27/05
• Dean Baker's testimony on privatization experience in other countries, before the House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security
• Many already lack a steady job before the Social Security retirement age 6/05
• Hispanics’ Large Stake in the Social Security Debate 6/05
• Productivity growth and Social Security's future, Spriggs & Price, EPI 5/05
• The Parent Trap, James Galbraith
• Retirement Income: The Crucial Role of Social Security, Weller & Wolff
• Recent Developments in Foreign Public and Private Pensions 6/05
• White House Distortions Mask Social Security Benefit Reductions
• Social Security Revisited, Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer
• Solvency and the Long Bond: Economic Life after Crisis
• Wall Street's Real Stake In Social Security Privatization, Steve Max, 4/05
• Analysis of Using "Progressive Prive Indexing" to Set Social Security Benefits
• Administration's Point Man on Social Security, Brad DeLong
• Social Security: The Most Important Anti-Poverty Program forChildren
• Empty Promise: Benefit to African American Men of Private Accounts Under President Bush's SS Plan
• Accurate Benefits Calculator current-law SS benefits vs. Bush's progressive indexing
• 12 Reasons Why Privatizing Social Security Is a Bad Idea, Anrig & Wasow, TCF
• Individual SS Accounts: Assessing Administrative Feasibility & Costs, EBRI
• SSPrivatization Crisis:Assessing the Impact on African-American Families 1/05
• Beating the Boomers: Why Bush and Co. are racing to cut Social Security, By Dave Lindorff
• Why Privatizing Social Security Would Weaken Our Republic, Benjamin Barber
• The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Wage Inequality
• Achieving A “Leninist” Strategy, Cato [Plotting to Privatize], 1983
• David Langer's publications on Social security--an actuarial perspective
• Saving Social Security? David Langer 
• Cooking Social Security's 'deficit' David Langer 
• Academy agrees Trustees' assumptions were inconsistent. News release from David Langer 
• Don't Privatize Social Security--AFL-CIO
• Social Security: Don't Just Fix the Symptom, Solve the Problem, by Pat Conover 
• Retirement Security--Century Fund
• Social Security's Finances Are in Fine Shape, by David Langer, Consulting ctuary. Remarks at a Congressional conference to fight Social Security privatization, January 21,1999 
• Social Security Actuaries' Changes In Methods And Assumptions, 1979-1998, by David Langer
• Social Security: Can the Trustees Be Trusted? By Mark Weisbrot 
• Three New Papers on "Privatizing" Social Security, One Conclusion: Bad Idea, John Mueller, Sr VP & Chief Economist, Lehrman Bell Mueller Cannon, Inc. The National Press Club, October 14, 1997 
• Social Security: The Phony Crisis, by Helen Lachs Ginsburg: Legislative Testimony