Celia: I will offer up another perspective. In 2006, Joel Garreau wrote a piece in the Smithsonian called “300 million and Counting.” This article is still readily available. The point of the article was the U.S. population which was an approximate 300 million. It was on the verge of creating only enough citizens to maintain […]

If current trends and policy continue, the Social Security Trust fund will be exhausted in the early 2030s and payments will drop by about 22%. If Trump has his way and income taxes are lifted on SS payments, the Trust Fund will be exhausted a year or two earlier and payments are projected to drop […]