Jake Johnson is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
In 1983, just before signing legislation that cut Social Security benefits, then-President Ronald Reagan declared that 'we're entering an age when average Americans will live longer and live more productive lives.' But Reagan's assumption of ever-rising life expectancy in the U.S.
4 years over a time span when the FRA rose by nearly two years,' Smyth observed. 'So not only have Americans seen their benefits cut by an increase in the FRA, they now also face a particularly morbid version of a benefit cut in the form of shorter lives.' The new analysis comes as some congressional Republicans are openly advocating further increases in the retirement age, with one GOP lawmaker recently declaring that people 'actually want to work longer.
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