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Social Security: Americans Agree VIDEO
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Social Security: Just the Facts Video
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COVERED: a week-by-week look at the political and legislative developments that led to the creation of Medicare and Medicaid 50 years ago. Bob Rosenblatt, Academy senior fellow and former Los Angeles Times Washington correspondent will report on the people and the maneuvers that led to this major expansion of social insurance.
NASI Highlights
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Expertise and Engagement
As we strive to enhance our Academy’s effectiveness in fulfilling our mission – increase public understanding of how social insurance contributes to economic security and advance solutions to challenges facing the nation – one of my major concerns in today’s polarized environment is the distrust of expertise among segments of the U.S. population.
- In Memoriam: Merton Bernstein
- Addressing Social Security's Long-Range Financial Stability
- Designing Universal Family Care: State-Based Social Insurance Programs for Early Child Care and Education, Paid Family and Medical Leave, and Long-Term Services and Supports
- Strengthening Social Insurance: The Role of Policy Innovation Challenges
- Socialism or Social Insurance?
- Social Security Finances: Findings of the 2019 Trustees Report
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New Medicare Eligibility Study Panel at the National Academy of Social Insurance
The National Academy of Social Insurance has announced the formation of a new Study Panel to examine potential changes to Medicare eligibility.
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Taxes, Contributions, and Social Insurance
With most Americans focused on taxes this month, it’s a good time to take a look at the relationship between federal income taxes and social insurance contributions.
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Assured Income
April 2019
- Key Takeaways from the Regenerating Social Insurance for Millennials and the Millennium Conference
- Regenerating Social Insurance for Millennials and the Millennium: Lessons Learned
- Forty-Five Experts Elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance
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Policy Innovations Challenge to Ensure Social Security Adequacy for Workers
The National Academy of Social Insurance is seeking innovative ideas to address the income adequacy needs of older workers who must claim Social Security retirement benefits early, due to ill health, an inability to continue to perform physically demanding jobs, or other factors.
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Assured Income as a Mechanism to Promote Economic Security
“Universal basic income” (UBI) has only recent come into popular usage, but the idea of assuring a base level of income to all is not new. Social insurance programs have been performing a similar function for much of the last century.
