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Social Security Reform
Covering: Social security and retirement
AARP: Social Security
The leading organization for retired people outlines their vision for social security reform and provides a wealth of information on the ongoing debate.
Benefits Link.com
Provides a good mix of liberal and conservative views on social security reform.
Cato Institute
The Cato Institute launched its project on Social Security choice in 1995. It publishes books, articles, & reports outlining programs, problems with the SSA. It advocates adopting a private retirement system based on savings, ownership, and investments.
Democratic Party-Social Security and Medicare
The party's official site for information on reform. Presents breaking news countering the adminstration's plans for privatization.
National Center for Public Policy Research
This conservative not-for-profit organization was founded in 1982 with a "mission to identify areas where the conservative movement is weak or absent, and fill the void." You can find analysis, papers, and commentaries with a conservative stance at this site. The group believes that overhauling the program would allow Americans more money to invest.
PBS Online News Hour: Social Security Reform
This is a thorough investigation by respected journalists, originally produced in 2005. The concise history of the social security program is especially helpful.
Public Agenda Issues: Social Security
A nonpartisan research organization helping Americans explore critical issues such as
Social Security this site provides links to understanding the issue, public opinion polls, and additional resources such as behind the headlines and Americans' plans for retirement.
Social Security Debate
Includes audio files of National Public Radio programs about the history of Social Security and Privatization Plan for Social Security. The collection of accounts discusses the impact of increasing longevity among Americans and the Bush administration’s three main strategies to privatize the program.
Social Security Network
The Century Foundation, a liberal think tank, highlights recent reports on Social Security Reform ranging from the exaggeration of the crisis, the 2005 Trustee's Report, debates from noted political correspondents, and how privatization would harm young adults.
Social Security Online
The official website of the Social Security Administration with links to news, Strengthening Social Security, financial reports, Social Security's future, and
Tricare. Search for forms, publications, and your estimated benefit.
Social Security Reform Center
This site provides fast facts, history, problems, solution, and resources for further examination of the "crisis." Links to calculating your benefits with a very conservative bent.
Last Update: April 30, 2008
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