Social Security

How much? About $13 billion in 2016.

Undocumented immigrants contributed an estimated $13 billion into Social Security funds in 2016.

An estimated 67 million Americans receiving the benefits will see a 2.8 percent cost-of-living boost to their checks.

It's something parents need to think about more and more these days.

Since the late 1970s, lawmakers have placed the SNAP nutrition program into the farm package hoping to get both urban and rural support. But that thinking might be outdated.

"I think it's up to our generation to fix the mistakes that we've made," Arun Muralidhar, founder of MCube Investment Technologies and co-author of "Rethinking Pension Reform," told us.

An economics professor from Boston University says that a new report on Social Security and Medicare is hiding the truth.

There are some ... idiosyncrasies in the Social Security system.

We have short-term focus but a long-term problem.

Michael Astrue, a former Social Security commissioner, talks about how and where the backlog starts.