How Social Security Administration cuts affect you
How Social Security Administration cuts affect you
- March 6, 2025
- Sydney Gordon, economics, The American Prospect, March 6, 2025
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In the 1980s, the Reagan administration embarked on a large-scale staff reduction at SSA, intended to cut staffing levels by 21 percent. … A remarkably timely research paper actually looked at this very time period. Sydney Gordon, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Irvine, wanted to study whether federal workforce downsizing had an impact on access to benefits. What she found at the SSA between 1985 and 1990 should serve as an eerie warning to Trump’s hatchet job on the federal workforce.
For the full story, please visit https://prospect.org/health/2025-03-06-how-social-security-administration-cuts-affect-you/.
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