Facing The Future: Happy 88th Birthday Social Security! Can We Save You?
b'This week on Facing the Future, we mark the 88th birthday of Social Security, one of the best functioning federal programs that has ever existed. Though the benefit program is a real lifeline for seniors and the disabled, it is in serious fiscal trouble and the Social Security Trust Funds may become insolvent just within the next few years. So we look back at the history of the program as well as into the future at possible solutions to save Social Security with two experts: Concord Coalition chief economist Steve Robinson, and Dr. Charles Blahous, senior research strategist at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.'