Social Security Benefit Cuts Are Here -- You Just Haven't Been Paying Close Enough Attention to Notice
Social Security is, unquestionably, our nation's most valuable social resource. For more than 80 years, it's provided a financial foundation for retired workers. Today it's responsible for pulling more than 15 million retirees out of poverty every year. Without this vital program, the U.S. elderly poverty rate would be more than four times higher than it is today, according to an analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Yet it's also a program facing its biggest challenge in history.
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