Highlights that current Social Security spending fails to lift millions of seniors out of poverty, advocating for targeted reform to address this inequity.
The framing emphasizes moral failure in the program’s design, arguing that a small portion of current spending could eliminate senior poverty, thus positioning equity as a neglected priority.
“We spend roughly $1.5 trillion a year on Social Security and still leave millions of seniors in poverty, despite the fact that, by my calculations, about 3 percent of the program’s budget, properly applied, could lift all older adults out of poverty.”
