| Social Security Choice and Reform - Cato Institute project promotes privatization of Social Security and presents benefits of moving Social Security funds into private accounts.
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| Social Security Network - Information, news, analysis and expert commentary on the Social Security debate. Sponsored by The Century Foundation, a liberal think tank.
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| National Academy of Social Insurance - Nonpartisan policy information on Social Security, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Medicare and other social insurance programs.
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| Common Sense on Social Security - Discusses various Social Security reform options.
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| President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security - The Bush Commission's final report details three proposed plans to modernize Social Security by establishing personal retirement accounts.
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| National Organization for Women and Social Security - Women must be particularly wary of the remedies proposed to fix Social Security. NOW opposes privatizing Social Security.
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| Employee Benefit Research Institute's Social Security Links - Links to articles, studies and policy analyses on Social Security reform.
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| International Center for Pension Reform - Promotes the reform of government-run pension systems along the Chilean model of private Retirement Savings Accounts.
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| Health Care and Social Security - Is Social Security unfair to minorities? Project 21, a leadership network of conservative African-Americans, answers that question and others. Links to policy analyses.
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| Social Security or Social Insecurity - Criticizes Social Security trust funds and the government's borrowing money from Social Security. Argues for privatization of Social Security.
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| Trust Fund Siphon Report - Criticizes the use of Social Security Trust Fund surpluses to fund other government activities.
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| National Center for Policy Analysis - Compare projected Social Security benefits to the benefits of a privatized plan.
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| Just Facts - A Resource for Independent Thinkers - Educate yourself about the largest government program in the world. Raw data and facts on Social Security taxes, benefits, finances, privatization, and related issues.
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| Retiring with Dignity: Social Security versus Private Markets - From the Cato organization. A position paper supporting privatization of Social Security.
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| National Women's Law Center - The answers to frequently asked questions about Social Security issues as they affect women.
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| 2030 Center - Public policy organization for young people. Favors strengthening Social Security for young workers.
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| Third Millennium: Advocates for the Future - Generation X and the Millennial Generation offer solutions to long-term problems including Social Security reform and Medicare reform.
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| Alliance For Worker Retirement Security - Advocates Social Security reform for the benefit of the American worker.
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| Grandfather Social Security Report - Comparison of economic impact of Social Security on today's workers compared to prior generation: hard data in easy-to-understand graphics.
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| Concord Coalition - Testimony, statements, assessments of reform proposals, from an organization dedicated to efficient government and preserving Social Security and Medicare.
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| Almanac of Policy Issues: Social Security - Background information and links on Social Security.
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| Network Democracy - Social Security - Interactive site for discussing options on reforming Social Security.
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| Estelle James - Member of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security, research focuses on social security reform, politics of reform process and administrative costs of individual account systems.
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| The Failed Critique of Personal Accounts - Cato's latest position paper on privatization and the benefits of moving current Social Security system into private pension funds.
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| Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement - WISER's Social Security factsheet and checklist for working women. Also, is it time for a major overhaul of Social Security?
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| The Social Security Game - Design your own solutions to Social Security's financial problems with this tool from the American Academy of Actuaries.
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| Social Security Information Page - Information and links about Social Security privatization and its importance in President Bush's 2000 campaign for the White House.
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| Employee Benefits Research Institute - EBRI's Social Security research program. Taxes, benefits, private accounts.
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| AFL-CIO on Social Security - Labor's opinion on privatization and other Social Security issues.
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| White House's Social Security Page - President Bush's plan to modernize and reform Social Security. Personal retirement accounts, rate of return on Social Security tax dollars.
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| International Reform Monitor--Bertelsman Foundation - Current issues and reforms in social insurance policy in these countries: Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States of America.
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| Libertarian Party on Social Security Reform - Libertarian Party favors privately held Social Security accounts.
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| Social Security Reform Center - Without reform, Social Security will have insufficient funds to pay benefits in the future. Can payroll taxes be turned into wealth?
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| Understanding the Issue: Fact Files - Facts about Social Security taxes and benefits and the roots of Social Security's financial difficulties.
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| United Seniors Association - Social Security reform: Why is it needed? Position papers and legislative updates.
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| Institute for America's Future - Social Security Superpage: Key issues, resources. What's new in the debate over Social Security's future.
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| Team NCPA - Educational effort to promote Social Security reform and personal retirement accounts to the people who will be most affected by reform. Team NCPA is sponsored by the National Center for Policy Analysis.
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| Social Security Choice.org - Social Security Choice wants to allow people to invest their Social Security taxes.
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| Sign the Pledge - Sign the Pledge opposes diverting any Social Security revenues to fund private investment accounts.
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| FDR and the Social Security Act of 1935 - What were the intentions of the framers of the U.S. Social Security program? Was Social Security supposed to be just for retirement? Are private retirement accounts a new idea?
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| ATR: Policy Issues: Social Security - Social Security private accounts. Position papers on various Social Security issues.
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| National Center for Policy Analysis - Answers to FAQs about Social Security taxes from a strong advocate of privatization.
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| Heritage Foundation Social Security Calculator - Heritage Foundation's take on the future of Social Security.
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| 60 Plus Association /// Social Security - Conservative non-partisan seniors advocacy group with a free-enterprise, less-government, less-taxes approach to saving Social Security.
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| Cato Social Security Choice Papers - Promoting policy based on individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peaceful international relations.
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| NCPA - Publications on Social Security - Non-profit public policy research institute seeking innovative private sector solutions to public policy problems.
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| Coalition to Preserve Retirement Security - State and local government employees should be allowed to preserve retirement security through retirement plans not included under Social Security.
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| A 12-Step Plan for Social Security Reform - Report by the National Center for Policy Analysis published in June 1998 describes a plan for U.S. Social Security reform, based on examples of recent similar reforms in countries around the world.
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| Cascade's Social Security Page - Should state governments be allowed to pull their employees out of Social Security?
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| Brookings Institution - Brookings research on Social Security, pensions and retirement.
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| Office of the Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration - Financial history and projections for the Social Security trust funds. Automatic annual increases in Social Security and SSI amounts.
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| Social Security for Women - Social Security is more important for women than for men. Find out why from the official web-site of the Social Security Administration.
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| Social Security Programs Throughout the World - Compare the U.S. Social Security system with more than 170 similar programs from six continents.
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| Social Security Youthlink - From the official web site of the Social Security Administration: Information on Social Security and other government programs for children, teenagers, parents and teachers.
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| International Social Security Association - An international organization which brings together institutions and administrative bodies, dealing with one or more aspects of social security.
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| International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis - IIASA's social security reform project. Social security reform from an international perspective. Includes issue papers on social security in Austria, China, Japan, Germany, Mexico, Russia and Ukraine.
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| Senior Journal - Senior Journal for news, information and opinion on Social Security reform.
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| Foundation for International Studies on Social Security - Promotes international, multidisciplinary research on social security and its relationships with other aspects of society.
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| Old Age Security and Canada Pension Plan - Social Security in Canada.
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| Regie des rentes du Quebec - Social Security in Quebec. In English.
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| Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services - Social Security in Australia.
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| National Insurance Institute of Israel - Social Security in Israel. In English.
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| Ministry of Social Development - Social Security in New Zealand.
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| Philippine Social Security System - Philippines' Social Security System.
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| Department for Work and Pensions - Social Security in Great Britain.
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| Social Protection in the European Union Member States - Social Security in the European Union.
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| Department of Social and Family Affairs - Social Security in Ireland.
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| Urban Institute Focus on Social Security Reform - Options for administering individual accounts. Save the surplus to save Social Security: What does that mean?
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| Social Security for Yesterday's Family? - Social Security was designed in the late 1930s, a time when a male worker with a stay-at-home wife was the norm.
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| Saving Social Security From Congress - Excerpts from a book about proposed solutions for problems with the U.S. Social Security system.
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| Tech Central Station - Privatization is the ultimate "Lockbox" for Social Security.
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| US Citizens in Micronesia - American citizens who plan to work in the Federated States of Micronesia should be aware of these Social Security provisions.
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| For Our Grandchildren - Educating the American people concerning the urgent need for Social Security reform.
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| Public Program Testing Organization - Advocate for Social Security reform, criticizes effect of taxation on retirees and Ticket-to-Work program.
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| Citizens for a Sound Economy - Lower taxes, less government, and more freedom. Grassroots Americans for Social Security reform.
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| Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - Putting Social Security reform into context.
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| AARP on Social Security - AARP addresses Social Security reform.
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| Institute for Policy Innovation - Social Security reform should include private accounts.
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| Sixty Plus Association - Seeks Social Security reform. Favors personal retirement accounts.
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| The Heritage Foundation: Social Security - Reform must not reduce the benefits of current retirees and should provide an adequate minimum retirement income.
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| Andrew Grossman: Saving the Social Security system, saving grace - The Bush administration looks to be gearing up for a push on Social Security reform.
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| FAQs About Social Security Choice - From CATO. Privatization and benefits of moving current Social Security systems capital into private pension funds.
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| National Institute of Population and Social Security Research - Social Security in Japan.
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| The National Council of La Raza - Latino/Hispanic perspective on the unfolding debate regarding ways to reform Social Security.
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| National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare - Seniors group outlines their positions on Social Security and Medicare issues.
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| Truth About Social Security - Layman's description of Social Security -- how it works, the nature of the problem it will face and a discussion of the alternatives proposed to fix that problem
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| Save Social Security - Social Security can be funded by cost-effective, private insurance, and gradually transitioned into a totally privatized program.
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