The Social Security funding gap and ways to fix it
Season 2024
Episode 226
About the Episode
Seventy million Americans receive Social Security benefits. But the program is paying out more than it’s taking in. Economics Correspondent Paul Solman looks at whether or not that financing gap spells doom and what can be done.
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