Social Security’s Cost-of-Living Adjustment Will Soon Become a Cost-of-Insolvency Adjustment

Social Security's Cost-of-Living Adjustment is transitioning toward a Cost-of-Insolvency Adjustment, highlighting the distinction between preventing senior poverty and funding high-income households. Simultaneously, France faces severe unrest linked to the killings of Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard. These events underscore the critical cost of silence regarding radicalization and extremism, raising urgent questions about the protection of free speech and the methods democracies must employ to confront violent extremism and maintain social stability within the nation.