Social Security and the Federal Deficit: Not cause and effect | Economic Policy Institute

Social Security and the Federal Deficit: Not cause and effect

(Updated August 9, 2010, 3:00pm)
The conventional wisdom in Washington is that an aging population will cause entitlement spending to balloon, driving our nation deeply into debt (see, for example, Brookings-Heritage Fiscal Seminar 2008, Peterson-Pew Commission 2009).

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