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            Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
        
    
                        
                    
                    Social Security is popular because it is a social insurance program that over 58 million Americans depend on to make ends meet.
    
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                Becky Sweger
            
            
        
    
    
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            Budget Process, 
        
            Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
        
    
In the latest installment of our weekly Budget Brief videos, senior research analyst Chris Hellman explains the payroll tax cuts enacted last year, the proposed extension of these cuts into 2012, and the debate over how to pay for them.