Social Security’s trust fund could be depleted sooner than expected

Letter to the editor: Depleting Social Security

How to eliminate Social Security? Don’t improve it, don’t fund it, and don’t tax it!

Social Security Is Protection From Volatility

The program is insurance against risk, which is suddenly very real for the millions of Americans with retirement savings in the market.

Repairing Social Security’s finances can’t wait - West Hawaii Today

Social Security is at the center of the fiscal emergency that threatens the U.S. Yet Washington is always reluctant to grapple with it honestly, partly because the issue is misunderstood.

Repairing Social Security’s finances can’t wait - Hawaii Tribune-Herald

Social Security is at the center of the fiscal emergency that threatens the U.S. Yet Washington is always reluctant to grapple with it honestly, partly because the issue is misunderstood.

Fixing Social Security can't wait for long

ANOTHER VIEW

Touch the third rail, save Social Security — before it’s too late

The Social Security Trust Fund is in far worse shape than most Americans realize. Yet both political parties refuse to confront it. Why? Because addressing Social Security is considered “touching the third rail” — a phrase meant to invoke the political equivalent of electrocution.Here’s where things stand. About 73 million Americans rely on Social Security for retirement, disability, or survivor benefits. But the program is bleeding money. It pa…