AARP Survey Finds Public Confidence and Reliance on Social Security Increase as Program Celebrates 70th Anniversary; Capitol Hill Rally to Mark the Anniversary

From: U.S. Newswire | Date: August 11, 2005 | Copyright information

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- To coincide with the 70th anniversary of Social Security, AARP today released a new survey that tracks public perceptions about Social Security over three decades. Not only has public confidence in Social security increased in recent years according to the poll, but Social Security has also surpassed pensions and savings as the top source of income Americans expect to rely on in retirement.

The survey, titled Social Security 70th Anniversary Survey Report: Trends over Time, repeats previous surveys conducted by AARP for the 50th (1985) and 60th (1995) ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Social Security is for everybody. (importance of cost-of-living adjustments)
Magazine article from: The Nation ; ...460 for a couple). Social Security contributed 38 percent of that income and...to a study by the Social Security Administration, 14 percent of the elderly were...line; but without Social Security, 50 percent would have been down...
Social security doesn't work any more.(hidden tax system)(Security for the Twenty-First Century)
Magazine article from: The American Enterprise ; ...illusion that Social Security was a sound...insurance. At just 1 percent of wages, paid...In the 1980s, Social Security's looming bankruptcy...lower by 27 percent the benefits...amendments to the Social Security Act were an...increases in the Social ...
Investing in equities: Can it help Social Security?
Magazine article from: Economic Quarterly - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond ; ...in 1940 to 97.6 percent in 1993. Social Security has also played...dropped to 11.7 percent. The increase in Social Security benefits is in...helping the poor, Social Security currently provides over 90 percent of income for half...
Is there a social security crisis ? (response to Theodore R. Marmor and Jerry L. Mashaw, The American Prospect, Nov-Dec 1996)
Magazine article from: The American Prospect ; ...an average of 3 percent . . . and no Social Security tax increase would...1966 and 1996, Social Security taxes have doubled-from 6 percent to 12.4 percent...payroll--or to cut Social Security benefits by 40 percent in order to remain...
Save Social Security? It's already solvent.(Features)(Work & Money)(Economic Scene)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor ; ...that the Social Security tax will...raised 2.19 percent over the...realistic 2.9 percent growth rate...chosen, the Social Security deficit would...from 2.19 percent of payrolls...years to 0.71 percent, a Social Security actuary told...
Social: Security/Insecurity; Fix the program, but don't junk it
Newspaper article from: Sunday News Lancaster, PA ; ...retirees. However, Social Security payments begin to...praised for making Social Security a leading item on...itself to alleviate Social Security's future fiscal problems...financial pressures on Social Security, not to mention the...substantial reduction in ...
Call off the 'crisis'? Social Security's solvency grows.(Features)(Work & Money)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor ; ...last spring, the Social Security trustees calculated...to pay about 70 percent of benefits from...economists. Since Social Security benefits are linked...growing about 2.4 percent a year for 10 years...estimates Baker, a Social Security expert with the...count shows a ...
Privatizing Social Security.(Review)
Magazine article from: Independent Review ; ...rate of return of 9.3 percent. The difference between what Social Security pays and what an individual...as the current 12.4 percent Social Security rate, the tax rate...dead-weight loss of about 20 percent of Social Security revenues ($67 billion...
Resecuring Social Security Private investment plan attracts interest, doubts
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe ; ...said they expected Social Security would represent...retirement income; 20 percent said it would not...profits than the Social Security system gets on...return of about 10 percent; a blend of corporate...returned about 7 percent, according to an...Washington to revamp ...
SOCIAL SECURITY HELPS CLOSE THE POVERTY GAP STUDY FINDS WOMEN AND MINORITIES HELPED MOST.(News)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) ; ...Security. Without monthly Social Security checks, 52.6 percent of women ages 65 and...study found. But with Social Security, 14.7 percent of elderly women were...without income from Social Security, 47.6 percent of elderly Americans...

Find more facts and information related to the article "AARP Survey Finds Public Confidence and Reliance ..."