According to the new calculations of the Social Security Trustees’ 2012 Report, Social Security’s future costs are a lot bigger than its future income.

The costs of disability programs are rising at an unsustainable pace. In all likelihood this will produce calls for program reforms. More systematic solutions should be considered, like experience rating SSDI payroll taxes.

Social Security pays women a higher average ratio of lifetime benefits to lifetime taxes than men. But that doesn't mean Social Security gives women an incentive to stay in the labor force. In fact, it does the opposite.

The most Social Security outlook has improved; however, reform is still required.

The stimulus bill could impact Social Security's finances.

Based on our reading of the evidence, the Supplemental Security Income-disabled children program has increasingly become a more general welfare program that in large part targets a population of able-bodied single mothers that overlaps with the TANF population.

This paper compares a variety of measures of fatness in terms of their ability to predict application for Social Security Disability Insurance.

Ending the little-known adjustment of starting benefits to wages will wipe out Social Security's long-term imbalances without tax increases.