May 25th, 2006
The National Academy of Social Insurance held a program titled “Can
We Afford Social Security When Baby Boomers Retire?” Sessions from
the event will be available online thanks to the @Prime website. @Prime honcho
DAVID TANANBAUM, a veteran pension analyst, called to rave about the event
as the best presentation of its kind he’s ever attended. Held at the
National Press Club, the two-hour program included seven speakers including
Debra Whitman of the Congressional Research Service; Virginia Reno, VP of
research at NASI, Stephen Goss chief actuary of Social Security; Margaret
Simms, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies; David John, Heritage
Foundation; and William Spriggs of Howard University.
May 22nd, 2006
The Matilda White Riley Lecture in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Inagural
Lecture
David Mechanic, PhD, Population Health: Challenges for Science and Society
3-4:15PM
Available for viewing via VideoCast on
or after May 22nd
December 7th, 2005
Justices Agree Benefits May Be Cut to Cover College Debts
The New York Times reported that “The Supreme Court ruled
unanimously today that the government may offset Social Security
benefits in order to collect old student loan debts." “The
decision gives the government an enhanced tool for collecting
billions of dollars in defaulted federally guaranteed student
loans by making it clear that a 10-year time limit on the government's
ability to collect debts through a process known as ‘administrative
offset’ does not apply to student loan debts.”
November 2006 Nancy
Altman: Drawing the Line on Social Security
Check out this November interview in the AARP Bulletin with Nancy
J. Altman, a lawyer and longtime expert on Social Security who
served as Alan Greenspan's aide on the bipartisan commission that
strengthened Social Security's finances in 1983. She recently
published the book "The Battle for Social Security: From
FDRs Vision to Bush's Gamble."
Altman, Nancy (2005). The Battle for Social Security: From FDR's
Vision to Bush's Gamble. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.
September 2005
Stephen Crystal projects "The Future of Old Age Benefits" in his
review of The
Economics of an Aging Society, by Robert L. Clark,
Richard V. Burkhauser, Marilyn Moon, Joseph F. Quinn, and Timothy
M. Smeeding in the Gerontologist (The
Gerontologist)
August 14th, 2005 Social
Security's Future Debated
Brooke Hollister, Project Director and Co-founder of Students
for Social Security and Concerned Scientists in Aging attended
a debate between New York Times writer and economist Paul Krugman
and Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute at The Franklin and Eleanor
Roosevelt Institute in Hyde Park, New York. Read a report of the
event from the Poughkeepsie Journal. Poughkeepsie Journal
