Who really pays for costs of employee health benefits that rise faster than labor productivity?

Twenty-five top college students will travel to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, D.C. this June to participate in the 2012 American Enterprise Summer Institute. 

Members of the Social Security Advisory Board's 2007 technical panel will discuss its final report, which could alter views regarding the future Social Security financing shortfall and how it might be addressed.

The White House's Office of Management and Budget is keeping secret the detailed and long-term budget projections and parameters that it uses to forecast the deficit in future years.

Joesph Antos' statement on premium support for Medicare before the House Committee on Ways and Means' Subcommittee on Health

In anticipation of President Obama's budget reform speech on Wednesday, April 13, several AEI scholars will be available to comment on the economic and political implications of the speech: Andrew Biggs, John H. Makin, Vincent Reinhart, Alan Viard, Michael Barone, Karlyn Bowman, and Norman J. Ornstein.

Our plan addresses the long-term fiscal imbalance while promoting limited government and economic growth. The plan fundamentally reforms the tax code while aggressively cutting federal spending to hold down the debt.

Slow and steady increases in the retirement age and minor tweaks in benefit formulas can no longer stave off disaster: Reformers must now entertain policy solutions once considered unimaginable. And prominent among those solutions is subjecting Social Security and Medicare to some form of means-testing, by which poorer seniors would receive more generous benefits and the wealthy would receive less (or none at all).