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Are Social Security's Self-financing Days Ending?

Are Social Security's Self-financing Days Ending?

Update: 2025-08-13
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This week on Facing the Future, former Social Security Public Trustee Charles Blahous discussed the program's deepening financing challenges on its 90th anniversary and explained why postponing action just makes things worse.

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