The same approach could work again: thoughtful, phased reforms that maintain the program’s core protections. Ideas on the ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security bill into law on this day in history, Aug. 14, 1935, creating a federal safety net for older, unemployed and disadvantaged Americans.

Yet many welfare states have been built the world over without an ideology of national security following in their wake.

“A budget is a moral document,” as numerous human rights activists have said over the decades. If that is true, then the ...

MSNBC. FDR's grandson discusses Social Security, Medicare go-broke dates being moved up. Posted: June 19, 2025 | Last updated: June 19, 2025. A new report says rising health care costs have pushed ...

FDR started Social Security. Ninety years later, his grandson, Boston lawyer Jim Roosevelt, wants to save it. Amid the Trump administration’s cuts, the 79-year-old sees ‘a direct threat to the ...

For the first time since Social Security’s creation 90 years ago, the full retirement age is set to hit 67 years old in 2026. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground.

FDR signed the Social Security Act into law in 1935. Besides trusting the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, I have always believed that the payments my husband and I have made all our ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law in 1935, establishing a social insurance program as a federal safety net for elderly, unemployed and other disadvantaged ...

A new report says rising health care costs have pushed up the go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security. Former Associate Commissioner of the Social Security Administration James Roosevelt ...