The Century Foundation

...The above graph comes from an ambitious new plan issued yesterday by the New America Foundation, which not only refuses to compromise on Social Security but actually proposes adding an additional, universal flat benefit called Social Security B, which would supplement traditional Social Security income to the tune of $11,669 per year for all elderly earners.

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But this week’s #TCFBest winner goes to Josh Freedman’s Reuters piece on expanding Social Security coverage. In a new paper from the New America Foundation, Freedman, Michael Lind, Steven Hill, and Robert Hiltonsmith propose “increasing the public portion of the American retirement system.” Specifically, they suggest...

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...So why would the DoD contract out the development of a health records system instead of co-opting VistA, which can be reworked for different contexts? It’s not because of it’s too difficult, that’s for sure. Blankenhorn quotes Phillip Longman, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and an outspoken champion of the VA noting that the government “could wire Walter Reed or Bethesda (the two biggest military hospitals) for VistA in an afternoon. Technically there’s no big problem....”

This report by Flynt Leverett, director of New America's Geopolitics of Energy Initiative within the American Strategy Program, was commissioned by The Century Foundation.

The complete document is available via The Century Foundation website at http://www.tcf.org/list.asp?type=PB&pubid=595.