Social Security Crisis?

Articles on Social Security from the D&S Archive

• Social Security Isn't Broken: So Why Does Greenspan Want to Fix It?
  BY DOUG ORR
  November/December 2004
  The real reason the powers-that-be want to privatize the Social Security system has nothing to do with creating an ownership society. It has everything to do with keeping the bond markets happy.
• The Social Security Administration's Cracked Crystal Ball
  BY JOHN MILLER
  November/December 2004
  A closer look at the gloomy growth projections behind the Social Security trustees' forecasts.
• African Americans and Social Security: Why the Privatization Advocates Are Wrong
  BY WILLIAM E. SPRIGGS
  May/June 2004
  Privatization proponents claim the current program is unfair to African Americans. They're wrong.
• Social Security Q&A
  BY ELLEN FRANK
  November/December 2001
• The Myth of the Social Security Trust Fund
  BY ELLEN FRANK
  May/June 1999
• Wall Street's Fondest Dream: The Insanity of Privatizing Social Security
  BY CHRISTIAN WELLER
  November/December 1998
• Social Security: Solidarity or Speculation?
  BY PAUL PRECHT
  September/October 1998
• How Not to Fix Social Security
  BY MARK WEISBROT
  March/April 1997