The Debt Dialogues is a weekly podcast that aims to educate young people about the welfare state and how it will affect their future. In this episode, I interview Sylvester Schieber, former chairman of the Social Security Advisory Board and author of The Predictable Surprise: The Unraveling of the U.S. Retirement System, on the question: Does America face a retirement crisis? Topics include:

• Whether Americans are saving enough for retirement
• Proposals to undermine private retirement planning options and make Americans more dependent on Social Security
• Calls by people like Senator Elizabeth Warren to increase Social Security handouts

Other Resources:

• Is there a retirement crisis? — Andrew Biggs and Sylvester Schieber
• The Predictable Surprise: The Unraveling of the U.S. Retirement System — Sylvester Schieber
• RooseveltCare: How Social Security Is Sabotaging the Land of Self-Reliance — Don Watkins

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