- Social Security
- What is Social Security?
- Who Pays for Social Security?
- Who Gets Social Security?
- What is the Social Security Retirement Age?
- How Do Benefits Compare to Earnings?
- The Role of Benefits in Income and Poverty
- Where Do Social Security Taxes Go?
- Social Security's Future Finances
- Public Opinions on Social Security
- How Will Boomers Affect Social Security?
- Social Security as a Share of the Economy
- Options to Balance Social Security Finances
- Proposals for Private Accounts
- Children's Stake in Social Security
- Social Security and People of Color
- Women's Stake in Social Security
- Social Security, Marriage, and Divorce
- Social Security for Widowed Spouses in Retirement
- What is Social Security Disability Insurance?
- Key Dates in the History of Social Security
- Social Security: Just the Facts on Finances, Benefits, and Public Opinion
- About the Social Security Section of this Sourcebook
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About the Social Security Section of this Sourcebook
The Social Security section of "Learn" draws on reports, briefs, fact sheets, testimony, seminars, and other items available on the website of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Its purpose is to highlight key facts and to serve as a roadmap to more complete information about Social Security on the Academy's website.
This section was last updated in August 2012. The updates are the responsibility of NASI staff Elisa A. Walker, Income Security Policy Associate, and Jill C. Braunstein, Director of Communications. Thomas Nguyen, NASI’s Income Security intern, provided invaluable assistance in compiling the 2012 updates.
Bob Rosenblatt, NASI Senior Fellow, compiled the original social insurance sourcebook, which was released in December 2003.
About the National Academy of Social Insurance
The National Academy of Social Insurance is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization made up of the nation's leading experts on social insurance. Its mission is to promote understanding and informed policymaking on social insurance and related programs through research, public education, training, and the open exchange of ideas. Social insurance encompasses broad-based systems for insuring workers and their families against economic insecurity caused by loss of income from work and the cost of health care. NASI's scope covers social insurance such as Social Security; Medicare; workers' compensation; and unemployment insurance, related public assistance, and private employee benefits.
