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Medicare, Social Security face shaky fiscal futures

(Susan Walsh | Associated Press file photo) A sign is shown during a news conference to reintroduce "Medicare for All" legislation, on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 10, 2019. The financial condition of the government’s bedrock retirement programs for middle- and working-class Americans remain shaky, with Medicare pointed toward insolvency by 2026. That’s the word from the latest report by the government’s overseers of Medicare and Social Security, which paints a sobering picture of the programs, though it’s relatively unchanged from last year’s update. Social Security would become insolvent in 2035, one year later than previously estimated.