Since We Last Spoke: Facebook’s Continued Growth, Harassment Online, and Social Security
Updates to past Pacific Standard print stories.
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Smoking Mad: Tobacco Users Caught Up in Insurer’s Obamacare Glitch
After signing up for coverage and disclosing they were smokers, about 100 New Hampshire consumers, including Terry Wetherby, find their new Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield policies canceled because they were charged incorrect “non-smoker” rates.
Since We Last Spoke: Superhero Love and Increasing Social Security Payouts
Updates to past Pacific Standard print stories.
How a Frustrated Blogger Made Expanding Social Security a Respectable Idea
Thanks to decades of stagnant wages and the Great Recession, more than half of American working-class households are at risk of being unable to sustain their standard of living past retirement. Duncan Black is trying to change that.
What Are New Retirees Most Concerned About?
More than social security, pension, and personal savings, those currently entering retirement fear the cost of health care, according to a new survey.
What Does a U.S. Government Shutdown Mean?
Passports, park admissions and poo are among Pacific Standard's list of 10 things that will be affected if the budget-less U.S. government shuts down this weekend.
Actuaries Insist We’ve Got to Retire Later
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.
Social Security Dilemma: Americans Are Living Too Long
Among non-politicians, there's remarkable unanimity on what areas of the Social Security system need fixing and what techniques are likely to work best. Second in a three-part series.
Social Security: Where Do We Go From Here?
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.
An Honest Look at Social Security
In the first of a three-part series on that 'third rail' of American politics, our Tom Jacobs examines the history of the program.