Early retirement, bah! The people who measure our life spans say Social Security should be less something that kicks in at 65 and more something Americans tap for, say, their last 20 years.
From past debates on privatization to new proposals to tap benefits in midlife and shifting the federal focus from the old to the young, experts of various stripes find fertile ground in debating the future of the program.
Two new proposals look to greatly increase the number of people who have adequate retirement plans, one by encouraging workers to save and the other by requiring them to.
Economists and experts on aging say we should encourage the elderly to stay, or get back, in the workplace. But many seniors are not doing so because of a quirk in the law.