Social Security

Social Security

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan made a stir with his recent suggestion to cut future Social Security benefits to keep the program solvent. A panel talks about the future of Social Security and how it might figure in the...

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan made a stir with his recent suggestion to cut future Social Security benefits to keep the program solvent. A panel talks about the future of Social Security and how it might figure in the presidential campaign.

Guests

Peter Ferrara

senior fellow at the Institute for Policy Innovation

Peter Orszag

director, Office of Management and Budget
former director, Congressional Budget Office,
and former senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and author of "Saving Social Security"

Dean Baker

co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and author of "Plunder & Blunder the Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy" (PoliPointPress)

David Cay Johnston

"New York Times" reporter and author of "Perfectly Legal" (Portfolio)

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