Entitlements

Bush saidÂ that "the Left" takes "things out of context" all the time.Â (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Jeb Bush: Liberals took ‘free stuff’ comments out of context

Barbara Boland · September 27, 2015 5:31 pm

Jeb: African Americans should achieve, not be given ‘free stuff’

Jeb: African Americans should achieve, not be given ‘free stuff’

Curt Mills · September 25, 2015 10:55 pm

About $117 billion out of $380 billion in Medicare payments are now tied to alternative payment models. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Raising Medicare age could shift costs

Robert King · September 17, 2015 10:01 am

Social Security is nowÂ 80 years old. It is alsoÂ incredibly outdated, sexist, and unfair across and within generations. (Getty)

Social Security is 80 — here’s how to retire it

Laurence Kotlikoff · August 16, 2015 4:01 am

Republican presidential candidate former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush greets fairgoers during a visit to the Iowa State Fair, Friday, Aug. 14, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Jeb waffles on personal Social Security accounts he once championed

Curt Mills · August 15, 2015 5:32 pm

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Social Security Bill in Washington. President Obama's economic advisers are calling on Congress to redirect funding from the Social Security retirement trust fund into the separate disability trust fund.Â (AP Photo, File)

White House marks Social Security’s 80th with call to fund disability

Joseph Lawler · August 14, 2015 4:08 pm

Social Security supporters attend a rally in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill.

Beltway Confidential

Eight graphs for Social Security’s 80th birthday

Jason Russell · August 14, 2015 3:09 pm

Carly: Trump Wrong on Planned Parenthood

Michael Warren · August 12, 2015 4:50 pm

Mike Huckabee aggressively defended Social Security by saying he would raise revenues for the program by taxing "illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers, all the people who are freeloading off the system now." (AP Photo)Â

Huckabee: Tax ‘illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers’ to save Social Security

Joseph Lawler · August 7, 2015 2:47 am

A Â judge on Friday shot down Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plans to reform major city employee pension funds. (AP Photo)

Judge nixes Chicago’s pension reform plan

Sean Higgins · July 24, 2015 5:27 pm

Social Security supporters attend a rally in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill.

Beltway Confidential

Trustees’ message is clear: Reform Social Security now

Jason Russell · July 23, 2015 8:59 pm

The Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits during the week ending July 18 on Thursday. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Jobless claims lowest since 1973 at 255,000

Joseph Lawler · July 23, 2015 12:32 pm