WISER - Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement
http://www.wiser.heinz.org/socialsecurity.html

NCWO -National Council of Women's Organizations
http://www.womensorganizations.org/pages.cfm?ID=38

National Women's Law Center
http://www.nwlc.org/display.cfm?section=social security

OWL - Older Women's League
http://www.owl-national.org/

AARP
http://www.aarp.org/socialsecurity

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
http://www.cbpp.org/

Center for Economic and Policy Research
http://www.cepr.net/

Century Foundation, Social Security Network
http://www.socsec.org

Economic Policy Institute
http://www.epinet.org/

WOW- Wider Opportunities for Women
http://www.wowonline.org/ourprograms/eesi/index.asp

Expert Resources

Listen to IWPR Economist Lois Shaw Present Paper at Levy Economics Institute Conference

The Effects of the President’s Social Security Proposal on Women
The Joint Economic Committee Democrats (March 2006)

How Would the President’s New Social Security Proposals Affect Middle-Class Workers and Social Security Solvency?  
By Jason Furman (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, April 2005)

An Analysis of Using “Progressive Price Indexing” to Set Social Security Benefits (April 29, 2005)
By Jason Furman (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, April 2005)

Unanswered Questions about Offset Reductions and Family Benefits
By Joan Entmacher (National Women’s Law Center, April 2005)

Social Security and the Income of the Elderly
By Michael Ettlinger and Jeff Chapman (Economic Policy Institute, March 2005)

Social Security: The Most Important Anti-Poverty Program for Children
By Heather Boushey (Center for Economic and Policy Research, March 2005)

False Promise: How Social Security Privatization Would Sting Young Adults
By Libby Perl (The Century Foundation, March 2005)

Defaulting on the Social Security Trust Fund: What It Would Mean, and How It Would be Done
By Dean Baker (Center for Economic and Policy Research, March 2005)

Options to Balance Social Security Funds Over the Next 75 Years
By Virginia Reno and Joni Lavery (National Academy of Social Insurance, February 2005)

Proposed Social Security Price Indexing Would Slash Benefits
By Amy Chasanov (Economic Policy Institute, February 2005)

How the Individual Accoun ts in the President’s New Plan Would Work: Plan Would Allow Individuals to Mortgage Half of Their Social Security Benefit
By Jason Furman (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, February 2005)

Social Security Privatization’s Motherhood Penalty
By William Spriggs (Economic Policy Institute, February 2005)
> Analysis shows that women would fare badly with private investment accoun ts, even compared to men with lower earnings on average, when they take time out of their early career to raise the family.

Social Security: Women, Children, and the States
(National Women’s Law Center, February 2005)
> Provides an analysis for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, including how many women, men, and children receive Social Security benefits, and the percentage of elderly women who would be poor without Social Security.

A Bird’s Eye View of the Social Security Debate
By Alicia H. Munnell (Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, December 2004)
> Learn about key issues of privatization proposals and how they would affect Social Security benefits.

Why Are So Many Older Women Poor?
By Alicia H. Munnell (Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, April 2004)
> Women’s lower earnings and longer life expectancy lead to greater risk of poverty in retirement.
> Read about the impact of income loss from Social Security and employer-provided pension plans when women become widowed.

Social Security Pays Benefits in Wake of September 11th Attacks
(National Academy of Social Insurance, March 2002)
> Read about the importance of Social Security, which is more than a retirement program.

Women and Individual Social Security Accoun ts in Chile, Australia, and the United Kingdom
By Sophie M. Korczyk (Public Policy Institute of AARP, July 2003)

The Impact of Social Security Reform on Low-Income and Older Women
By Melissa M. Favreault and Frank J. Sammartino (Public Policy Institute of AARP, July 2002)

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The 2006 OASDI Trustees Report
The 2006 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds, was issued on May 1, 2006. The report presents the current and projected future financial status of the trust funds.

Senate Finance Committee Hearings on Social Security Reform
(April 26, 2005)

The 2005 OASDI Trustees Report
(Social Security Administration, March 2005)

Updated Long-Term Projections for Social Security
(Congressional Budget Office, January 2005)
> This update projects Social Security payments under current law will exceed revenues in 2020, a year later than what CBO originally projected in June 2004.

The Outlook for Social Security
(Congressional Budget Office, June 2004)
> CBP projects Social Security trust funds will become exhausted in 2052 with currently scheduled benefits. After that, Social Security revenues will be able to pay about 80 percent of scheduled benefits.

Long-Term Analysis of Plan 2 of the President’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security (Congressional Budget Office, September 2004)
> Provides the details of the leading privatization plan that includes the calculation of benefits from wage indexing to price indexing. The total expected benefits, including payouts from private accounts, would be less than under current law, even if current-law benefits would fall below scheduled benefits after 2050.

The 2004 OASID Trustees Report
(Social Security Administration, March 2004)
> The Trustees’ long-term financial projection estimates the Social Security Trust Funds to be depleted in 2042. After then, Social Security revenues would cover 73 percent of scheduled benefits under current law in 2042 and 68 percent of scheduled benefits in 2078.

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