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The impact of Social Security on US federal spending and deficits.
Early retirement “how much is enough” is not a single number but a calculation built from projected retirement spending, expected investment returns and the timing of guaranteed income like Social Sec...
Since 2025, federal revenues rose materially while outlays also climbed, producing a 2025 deficit that was marginally smaller than 2024’s but still historically large; CBO reports the FY2025 deficit a...
The Supreme Court has treated Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 as a capacious grant: the taxing power reaches broadly across subjects and methods, and after early twentieth‑century limits the Court larg...
Historians and demographers confront destroyed records, mass graves, and double-counting by combining demographic reconstruction, statistical modelling, and multiple-source linkage: techniques range f...
The 1935 Social Security Act drew a clear structural and philosophical line between “assistance” and “benefits”: Titles authorizing assistance were federal grants that subsidized state-run, means-test...