Analysis Spotlights the Lasting Pain Inflicted by Reagan's Social Security Cuts | Common Dreams
Common Dreams highlights a People's Policy Project analysis by Conor Smyth finding that the 1983 Social Security cuts Reagan signed, which gradually raised the full retirement age from 65 to 67, rested on an assumption of rising life expectancy that proved false—U.S. life expectancy fell from 76.8 years in 2000 to 76.4 in 2021. The article ties this to current Republican proposals to raise the retirement age to 70, while advocates push Biden and Democrats to expand Social Security instead.
