Things That Will Happen Before Social Security Faces a Shortfall


 

Publication Date: June 2005

Publisher: Center for Economic and Policy Research

Author(s): Dean Baker

Research Area: Government

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.