July 2025 – Social Security Enrollments
The social security office released the July 2025 social security snapshot and it continues to climb unabated. The current monthly cost of the current benefits is $130,248 billion ($1.56 trillion…
June 2025 – Social Security Enrollments
The social security office released the June 2025 social security snapshot and it continues to climb unabated. The current monthly cost of the current benefits is $129,876 billion according to…
May 2025 – Social Security Enrollments
The social security office released the May 2025 social security snapshot and it continues to climb unabated. The current monthly cost of the current benefits is $129 billion according to…
Demographic Realities 2025
Following up to our last post on what happens during demographic death spirals there have been a few stories released that help illustrate our point. The New York Times reports…
What Happens During Demographic Death Spirals
Reaching the 73 million milestone for social security enrollments had us researching demographic death spirals. What happens during demographic death spirals? Defining Demographic Death Spiral A demographic death spiral occurs…
January 2025 – Social Security Enrollments
The social security office released the January 2025 social security snapshot report and it shows further growth in enrolls. For January 2025, there were 144,000 net new social security recipients…
Elevators, Tractors, and Plants, Oh My!
Happy New Year! It’s 2025, do you know where your labor shortages are this year? We started the year with some interesting news from three different industries. Elevators First, there…
October 2024 – Social Security Enrollments
The social security office released the October 2024 Snapshot and it shows a 9% drop in growth from September. For October 2024, there were 121,000 net new social security enrollees…
September 2024 – Social Security Enrollments
The social security office released the September 2024 snapshot and it’s a 49% jump from August. For September 2024, there were 133,000 net new social security enrollees over the age…
Labor Shortages In 2032 & Today
The HR Digest had two interesting articles on labor shortages. The first is an article on a report from Lightcast which projects a deficiency of 6 million workers by 2032.…