A Conversation About the Future of Social Security Revenue

Date & Time

September 10, 2026 1:00 PM

Join us on September 10th at 1:00 p.m. ET where the Roosevelt Institute will convene our Good Life Residents Tyler Bond, Jon Schwabish, and Lena Simet to discuss a new series of essays on how Social Security’s revenue system can be updated for today’s economy. Moving beyond a narrow debate over trust-fund solvency, the panel will examine options to restore the taxable wage base, identify forms of income and economic gain that currently fall outside the payroll tax system, and close loopholes that allow wages and labor income to be treated differently for Social Security purposes. The conversation will consider how future revenue reform can preserve Social Security’s core guarantees, reject benefit cuts, and create room to strengthen and expand the program as a durable system of progressive social insurance.