SOURCE: Data from the Social Security Administration, 2012 Trustees Report. Compiled by PGPF.

Over the next twenty years, 77 million members of the baby boom generation will move into old age, swelling the ranks of entitlement beneficiaries. The number of working-age adults available to support those beneficiaries will not keep pace.

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The PGPF chart pack illustrates that budget-making involves many competing priorities, limited resources, and complex issues. In this set of charts, we aim to frame the financial condition and fiscal outlook of the U.S. government within a broad economic, political, and demographic context. Download (.PDF)