Description
Former public trustee for the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds Charles Blahous talked about the increase in the cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security.
9 minutes
Keywords
- Beneficiary
- Cost Of Living Adjustment
- Inflation
- Insolvent
- Interest
- Means Test
- Medicare
- Partisan
- Payroll Tax
- Polarization
- Poverty
- Revenue
- Social Security
- Spanish American War (1898)
- Treasury Security
- Trust Fund
- Wage
Additional Resources
- Primary Source Current Event Video Analysis Handout - Google Docs
- Video Clip: Efforts to Preserve Social Security and Medicare
- Video Clip: Social Security and Medicare Solvency
- Video Clip: New Report on the Future of Social Security and Medicare
- Bell Ringer: Social Security
- Bell Ringer: How Social Security is Funded
- Lesson Plan: The Future of Social Security
- Deliberation: How Should Social Security Be Fixed? (C-SPAN Classroom Deliberations)