{"id":826053,"date":"2026-08-26T04:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/826053\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T04:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:20:09","slug":"opinion-the-best-way-toward-a-social-security-fix-isnt-benefit-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/826053\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | The best way toward a Social Security fix isn\u2019t benefit cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"R6C6SRVMCBFIHA7ZVMEIJ5GZOE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Marc Goldwein\u2019s Aug. 20 online op-ed, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2026\/08\/20\/fixing-social-security-needs-bipartisan-commission\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The best way toward a Social Security fix? This one is tried and true.<\/a>,\u201d which called for a fast-tracked Social Security commission, gets one thing right: AARP is strongly opposed to cutting the Social Security Americans have earned over a lifetime of hard work. And more than 80 percent of people across the country agree that Social Security should not be cut to \u201csave\u201d it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aarp.org\/pri\/topics\/work-finances-retirement\/social-security\/social-security-solvency-challenges-solutions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.aarp.org\/pri\/topics\/work-finances-retirement\/social-security\/social-security-solvency-challenges-solutions\/\">according to a survey AARP conducted<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Goldwein\u2019s Aug. 20 online op-ed, \u201cThe best way toward a Social Security fix? This one is tried&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-826053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}