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Things That Will Happen Before Social Security Faces a Shortfall
Publication Date: June 2005
Publisher(s): Center for Economic and Policy Research
Author(s): Dean Baker
Topic: Government (Public services and utilities)
Keywords: Prescription drugs; Devaluation; Species extinction
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The paper cites nine disturbing trends that will result in devastating human and environmental costs by 2052, when the Congressional Budget Office projects that Social Security will first see a shortfall.