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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w11060 |
来源ID | Working Paper 11060 |
Measuring Social Security's Financial Problems | |
Jagadeesh Gokhale; Kent Smetters | |
发表日期 | 2005-01-17 |
出版年 | 2005 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | The U.S. Social Security system has helped keep many retirees out of poverty. However, according to the Social Security and Medicare Trustees, Social Security faces a future financial shortfall of $10.4 trillion in present value. This enormous imbalance has received little attention in public debates about Social Security. Instead, the media and policymakers continue to focus on the program's trust fund and several other ad-hoc measures that create a misleading impression of the size of Social Security's financial problem. Although the Social Security Trust Fund is not projected to be exhausted until 2042, Social Security's $10.4 trillion present value imbalance is accruing interest and will grow by $600 billion during 2004 alone. The current cash-flow federal budget, however, is biased against reforms that would improve Social Security's finances. As shown herein, a new federal accounting system would remove this bias. |
主题 | Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w11060 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/568695 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jagadeesh Gokhale,Kent Smetters. Measuring Social Security's Financial Problems. 2005. |
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