About the Authors Andrew G. Biggs, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute Ph.D., London School of Economics Prior to joining AEI Biggs was the principal deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), where he oversaw SSA's policy research efforts and led the agency's participation in the Social Security Trustees working group. In 2005 he worked on Social Security reform at the National Economic Council and in 2001 was on the staff of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security. Andrew’s work at AEI focuses on Social Security reform, fiscal consolidation to address the country's ballooning deficits, state and local government pensions, and comparisons of public and private sector compensation. His work has appeared in academic publications as well as in outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post, and he has testified before Congress on numerous occasions.
Jason Richwine, former National Research Initiative Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Ph.D., Harvard University Jason Richwine is a Washington DC‐based public policy analyst who conducts quantitative analyses on a wide variety of social policy issues, among them immigration, education, welfare, and family structure. Richwine’s analysis and articles have appeared in major newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and Dallas Morning News and in political journals such as National Review and The American Spectator. He has published widely on public‐sector pay at the federal, state, and local levels, with his work on the issue cited in Congressional hearings. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, and he previously worked at the American Enterprise Institute on a dissertation fellowship.
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