2009-2017: Number of Social Security Recipients to Grow Five Times Faster than the Number of Workers

Willisms says: “From 2009-2017, the number of retirees receiving Social Security will grow by 23.9%, the number of workers by only 4.3%. In other words, the number of retirees will grow more than five times faster than the worker population.”

Go here for his post, which has eight more facts as worrisome as that one.



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