Can Immigration Save Social Security?

When Housing and Immigration Collide

When Housing and Immigration Collide

Social Security Slithering

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This Social Security Rule Change Has to Happen to Avoid More Retirees Losing Benefits Each Year

There's one key rule that doesn't make a lot of sense for seniors.

Border Win: SCOTUS Rules Migrants in Mexico Haven't 'Arrived' in the US for Asylum Purposes

Border Win: SCOTUS Rules Migrants in Mexico Haven't 'Arrived' in the US for Asylum Purposes

Sens. Moreno, Warren: Must Act Now to Save Social Security

A Republican and a Democrat senator are making a bipartisan push to shore up Social Security by requiring high-income earners to pay payroll taxes on all of their wages, arguing the change would help prevent steep benefit cuts and strengthen the program, which provides retirement, disability, and survivor benefits. “Congress must act now to save []...Click to read more

Mass immigration is not the silver bullet economists think it is

As with the free-trade debate in recent years, consensus is shifting

Social Security benefits give men the advantage

Social Security benefits give men the advantage

Washington seniors are being warned against the one Social Security move you can never undo

Suze Orman warns Washington seniors that claiming Social Security at 62 out of fear of the program running dry locks in a permanent 30 benefit cut for life.

HUD’s efforts to end housing support for mixed-status families will ruin lives

Federally assisted housing provides stability to many families, but HUD’s proposed rule will ingrain discriminatory policies and make immigrants more economically vulnerable HUD’s efforts to end housing support for mixed-status families will ruin lives is a story from Prism, a BIPOC-led nonprofit news outlet that centers the people, places, and issues currently underreported by national media. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our work today.

Putin gets tough with migrants in Russia as he forces them to ‘pay in advance’

Migrants will also face a mandatory fixed advance income tax for themselves and each family member.

I ran out of words for my disgust with America. So I left

With the US experiencing unprecedented negative net immigration over the past year, émigrés explain why they left their homeland behind

In California governor's race, voters face stark choice on immigrant healthcare

For decades, Californians have generally said that immigrants, who make up more than a quarter of the state’s population and a third of its labor force, are beneficial to the state and its economy. But budget instability and concerns about ...

Here's the Problem With Modern-Day Immigration, According to Milton Friedman

Here's the Problem With Modern-Day Immigration, According to Milton Friedman

WATCH: IMC on Migration provides update as government responds to illegal immigration concerns

WATCH: IMC on Migration provides update as government responds to illegal immigration concerns

Migration, Aspiration and Cohesion

Immigration is not simply a matter of labour supply or GDP growth. It is also about belonging, identity, and the intangible bonds of genuine citizenship

Social Security is headed for a day of reckoning, and Congress is running out of time to save boomers. Lawmakers are proposing some hard choices

Congress has long dodged any Social Security reforms that would cut benefits, hike taxes, or do both. But those days of procrastination are coming to an end, and some lawmakers are facing up to that reality. The clock is ticking and getting louder. New projections this month showed that the Social Security trust fund will []

Open Borders Contributed to Real Estate Inflation

Politicians continue insisting that mass migration carries no economic consequences. Anyone who questions the policy is immediately accused of being anti-immigrant. That has always been the tactic. Rather than debate the economics, they attack the person asking the question. Yet reality eventually catches up with political slogans, and now even economists are beginning to quantify []

Your Social Security benefits could be cut by a quarter in 2032. Here's what to know

Americans' Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to a June 9 report from the Social Security Board of Trustees. That's months sooner than the group had estimated in 2025.

Can Congress Fix Social Security's Funding Crunch?

Can Congress Fix Social Security's Funding Crunch?

The Warren-Moreno Social Security proposal

Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Moreno have a NYT op-ed (gift link) advocating that Social Security have its solvency extended beyond 2032 (if nothing is done before then the current government projection is that benefits would have to be cut across the board by 24) by simply eliminating the cap on the tax, which is currently [] The post The Warren-Moreno Social Security proposal appeared first on Lawyers, Guns Money.

Marjorie Taylor Greene issues dire warning for the future of Social Security and Medicare: ’They’ll be bankrupt in just a few years’

Former Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene warned that Social Security and Medicare are heading toward insolvency, telling followers on X that benefit cuts are inevitable unless Washington changes course. In a lengthy post, Greene argued that neither political party has been honest with Americans about how close the programs’ trust funds are to running dry....

Bernie Moreno and Elizabeth Warren find common ground on lifting Social Security payroll tax cap

In a rare sign of bipartisanship, Sens. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) joined forces to find a “common-sense solution” to preserve Social Security for future generations. The Social Security trust fund for retirees is expected to be significantly depleted by late 2032, according to a trustees’ report released by the Social Security Administration []

Social Security's insolvency is No. 1 issue, says Sen. Bill Cassidy

Outgoing Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said Sunday he is “working” on gaining consensus for his proposed reforms to Social Security, which he warns is growing closer to insolvency. “Right now we're working on Social Security. Social Security is going to [be] insolvent, and when that happens, there'll be a cut of 22 percent to 25...

US explains how immigrants can apply for a Green Card, lists key steps

The United States has given a breakdown of how an immigrant or a citizen of another country can apply for and get a Green Card to work in the country.

'Temporary' Deportation Protection Was Always a Total Farce

The Temporary Protected Status program for immigrants has long been a one-way ratchet - always extended but never revoked - that's made a mockery of the word temporary.