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Andrew Biggs talked about issues related to the financial solvency of Social Security and other entitlement, retirement, and pension programs. He supports gradually raising the early retirem…

Andrew Biggs talked about public school teacher pay, specifically his work on a new Heritage Foundation-American Enterprise Institution joint study of public school teacher compensation. Acc…

Witnesses talked about the Social Security Disability Insurance program and drivers of the cost of the program.

Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), a member of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, talked about reasons the committee failed to reach agreement. Following his remarks, economic scholar…

Witnesses testified about efforts in several states to cut spending in their state budgets. Among the issues they addressed were providing benefits and pensions for state workers, limiting t…

John Berry and others testified about federal worker pay. Subcommittee Chairman Dennis Ross said that federal employees make over four times their private sector counterparts and warned that…

Panelists discussed the past, future, and current state of the Social Security system. They focused on various proposals to improve future solvency such as benefit cuts, raising the retireme…