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EconomyStrip out health care and social services, the U.S. lost jobs in 2025—something that usually happens in recessions
By Eva RoytburgJanuary 9, 2026
An elderly man prepares ingredients, grating carrots on a plate in a home setting, emphasizing independence and routine.
North AmericaMore Americans will die than be born in 2030, CBO predicts—leaving immigrants as the only source of population growth
By Eva RoytburgJanuary 7, 2026
Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and former State Department director of policy planning, testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee January 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. Haas testified before the committee on the topic of “From Sanctions to the Soleimani Strike to Escalation: Evaluating the Administration's Iran Policy."
EconomyLegendary DC diplomat feels ‘like Paul Revere’ about the $38 trillion national debt: ‘The crisis is coming!’
By Eva RoytburgNovember 13, 2025
Barry Eichengreen
Personal FinanceYour political polarization is the reason for our $38 trillion national debt, top economist says: ‘it’s deeply debilitating’ for ‘consensus and stability and productive policy results’
By Eva RoytburgNovember 13, 2025
EconomySocial Security payments to go up 2.8% next year while polls show three-fourths of seniors think 3% isn’t enough to keep up with rising prices
By Fatima Hussein and The Associated PressOctober 24, 2025
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EconomyTens of millions on Social Security go without cost-of-living adjustment due to government shutdown
By Fatima Hussein and The Associated PressOctober 15, 2025
Donald Trump
Personal FinanceTrust funds that finance Medicare and Social Security are at risk of insolvency within 7 years, cutting benefits up to 24%, a new report warns
By Nick LichtenbergOctober 8, 2025
President Donald J. Trump's name is printed on a stimulus check issued by the IRS to help combat the adverse economic effects of the new coronavirus outbreak in San Antonio, April 23, 2020.
Personal FinanceAlmost 400,000 Americans still get Social Security by paper check. That’s going away everywhere (except where it isn’t)
By Fatima Hussein and The Associated PressSeptember 30, 2025
Personal FinanceSocial Security chief says he won’t hike the retirement age amid the strain of America’s aging population and fears of benefit cuts
By Ashley LutzSeptember 23, 2025
Frank Bisignano, commissioner of the US Social Security Administration, left, and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025.
EconomyTrump’s social security chief says ‘everything’ is on the table and retirement is about to get a ‘different set of rules’
By Eleanor PringleSeptember 19, 2025
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Success65-year-old retirees in France now have higher incomes than working-age adults—meanwhile, American boomers can’t even afford to retire
By Emma BurleighSeptember 16, 2025
FinanceSocial Security and Medicare cuts are coming because the bond market will eventually bring Congress to its knees, economist says 
By Jason MaAugust 31, 2025
FinanceTrump’s Social Security tax cuts could hit future generations hard and propel the program’s insolvency by 2032, research warns
By Ashley LutzAugust 15, 2025
Donald Trump
PoliticsSocial Security’s ‘go-broke date’ keep creeping up—it’s lost a full year since the last accounting
By Fatima Hussein and The Associated PressAugust 14, 2025
Personal FinanceThe Social Security tsunami: Payments could be cut by 23%, doubling the poverty rate for America’s seniors
By Ashley LutzAugust 8, 2025
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