SOCIAL SECURITY

Next year, town halls may be filled with angry early retirees and others who don’t qualify for Medicare and don’t want their new health care benefits disturbed.

A new report highlights the most work threatening industries by U.S. location, based on the rates of injuries.

The OECD said in some cases immigration costs 0.5% of GDP; in other cases it adds about the same, according to the report.

The poll says Americans are split along partisan lines about whether President Obama's budget represents a compromise.

You can be sure any time the government changes its statistical methods, it’s for the benefit of the government.

With its rapidly aging population and a young pension fund, China is paying out pensions without generating enough revenue.

President Barack Obama wants your money now. Like, right now.

Obama is backing a new CPI that would lower statistically-reported inflation, increase income taxes and slow Social Security spending growth.

In case someone was visiting another planet the last two years, taxes on Earth are up, according to the OECD.

A group of House Democrats warned that they will vote against any deal that includes cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

Sarah Palin wrote in a Facebook post that went viral on Tuesday that the U.S. government is stockpiling bullets in order to fend off any "civil unrest" that may result from the ongoing economic troubles facing Americans.

As the sequester looms, even Republican voters would prefer cuts to the once-hallowed defense budget.

The expiration of the U.S. payroll tax cut likely left consumers with 3.5% less personal disposable income in January.

China's government has rolled-out new tax reforms hoping to alleviate the nation's growing wealth gap while paving a path for sustainable economic growth.

Most Americans have banked less pay this month because of the end of the payroll-tax cut, and some who backed the president say they feel duped.

The report revealed a lackluster labor market, flat unemployment and a holiday shopping season that may have been a dud. What's the Fed to do?

U.S. Senate leaders were hammering out a last-minute deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff" on Monday, but it's unclear if lawmakers will back it.

The GOP majority's determination to shield millionaires at all costs may push John Boehner off a cliff, too.

The impending crisis cuts has been simmering for months. Now it's reaching a boil. Merry Christmas!

Maybe others have lost all hope for a fiscal-cliff deal, but House Speaker John Boehner, despite his Plan B failure, has not.

President Barack Obama has agreed to curtail future cost-of-living hikes for Social Security and softened his demand for higher taxes on the rich in talks to avoid the ‘‘fiscal cliff,’’ people familiar with the talks said.