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Social Security is nowÂ 80 years old. It is alsoÂ incredibly outdated, sexist, and unfair across and within generations. (Getty)

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Social Security is 80 — here’s how to retire it

Laurence Kotlikoff -

August 16, 2015 4:01 am

Republican presidential candidate former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush greets fairgoers during a visit to the Iowa State Fair, Friday, Aug. 14, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Politics

Jeb waffles on personal Social Security accounts he once championed

Curt Mills -

August 15, 2015 5:32 pm

In this photo illustration U.S. Treasury checks are piled at the U.S. Treasury printing facility July 18, 2011 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo Illustration by William Thomas Cain/Getty Images)

Politics

Four Social Security myths

Barbara Boland -

August 14, 2015 6:35 pm

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Social Security Bill in Washington. President Obama's economic advisers are calling on Congress to redirect funding from the Social Security retirement trust fund into the separate disability trust fund.Â (AP Photo, File)

Economy

White House marks Social Security’s 80th with call to fund disability

Joseph Lawler -

August 14, 2015 4:08 pm

Social Security supporters attend a rally in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill.

Beltway Confidential

Eight graphs for Social Security’s 80th birthday

Jason Russell -

August 14, 2015 3:09 pm

For 80 years Social Security has embraced the American spirit of hard work and provided a vital safety.Â (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Social Security turns 80: Let’s protect that promise for future generations

Rep Sam Johnson -

August 14, 2015 4:01 am

In the early 2000s, President George W. Bush set out to fix what he called a broken Social Security system. (AP file)

Beltway Confidential

What if George W. Bush’s Social Security reforms had passed?

Jason Russell -

August 13, 2015 4:28 pm

Beltway Confidential

How should Social Security define disability?

Jason Russell -

August 11, 2015 4:01 am

Mike Huckabee aggressively defended Social Security by saying he would raise revenues for the program by taxing

Economy

Huckabee: Tax ‘illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers’ to save Social Security

Joseph Lawler -

August 7, 2015 2:47 am

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. (Graeme Jennings/WEX)

Beltway Confidential

Sen. Hatch accuses Obama of sitting out disability insurance debate

Jason Russell -

August 4, 2015 6:27 pm

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