For more than eight decades, Social Security has been a financial anchor for our nation's retired workforce. The monthly payouts the program provides were responsible for lifting 22.5 million people out of poverty in 2020, including 16.1 million seniors aged 65 and above, according to an analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. 

But this foundational program isn't on the best financial footing, and it's resulted in a lot of finger-pointing -- especially at elected officials.

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