Plus check out our latest podcast episodes on what might come after the US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, and how immigrants are critical to the nation’s economic future.
The recently released Social Security Trustees report shows that the program will no longer be able to make all of its promised benefit payments by 2034, and future deficits between scheduled payroll tax revenue and program expenditures are large and growing.
Gopi Shah Goda and Lily Nevo outline Social Security’s financial shortfall and explain why efforts to curb waste, fraud, and abuse won’t be enough to ensure the program can continue delivering essential benefits to retirees, survivors, and disabled Americans well in the future.
Assessing the impact of US strikes on Iran. In a recent episode on the Current,Fred Dews and Mara Karlin discuss the recent U.S. attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, the Israeli-Iran conflict, and what might come next.
Immigration driving economic prosperity. In a new episode of Democracy in Question, Katie Dunn Tenpas speaks withTara Watson to unpackrecent immigration policy changes by the Trump administration and the possible impacts on the U.S. economy and democracy.
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