Op Ed: Conventional Wisdom is Just Plain Wrong on Social Security

Social Security is secure, solvent and here for the long term. Those who claim that it is not are just plain wrong.

If you repeat something even if it’s wrong often enough, people begin to believe it. The fiscal foundations and future of Social Security, so important to so many of us, have been subject to a blizzard of misinformation. Every year the Social Security Trust Fund Trustees report to Congress on the long-term financial health of Social Security. The reports provide our elected officials with the information they need to secure and ensure the fund’s future. Despite this year’s positi...