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TR99 = 1999 Social Security Trustees Report of March 30, 1999 = 1999 Annual Report Of The Board Of Trustees Of The Federal Old-Age And Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds, March 30, 1999. Individual sections of the report, in HTML, are available from http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/TR99/index.html.

The entire report, in PDF format, is available from ftp://ftp.ssa.gov/pub/oact/tr99.pdf . The size is 1,093,986 bytes.
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SUMTR99 = Summary of the 1999 Social Security (OASDI) Trustees Report of March 30, 1999 = Status of the Social Security and Medicare Programs, A SUMMARY OF THE 1999 ANNUAL REPORTS, Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees at http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TRSUM/trsummary.html .
For 1996-1998, try these URLs.
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TRSUM/1996/trsummary.html
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TRSUM/1997/trsummary.html
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TRSUM/1998/trsummary.html
The report for 1995 is unavailable, per someone at ssa.gov
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socsec-reports = Index To Last Five Social Security (OASDI) Trustees Reports
at http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/
Publication dates of the Trustees' Reports, last 5 years: 3/30/99, 4/28/98, 4/24/97, 6/5/96, 4/3/95.
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medicare-reports = The HI (Medicare Part A) Trustees and the SMI (Medicare Part B) Trustees Reports for 1999 and 1998. Individual sections of these report, in HTML are available from http://www.hcfa.gov/pubforms/tr/default.htm. So is the PDF version of each refort. See also the "HI99" and the "SMI99" links below for a more specific location of the 1999 reports.
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HI99 = HI Trustees Report of March 30, 1999 = 1999 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, March 30, 1999. Individual sections of the report, in HTML are available from http://www.hcfa.gov/pubforms/tr/default.htm.

The entire report, in PDF format, is available from http://www.hcfa.gov/pubforms/tr/hi1999/hi.pdf .
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SMI99 = SMI Trustees Report of March 30, 1999 = 1999 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund, March 30, 1999. Individual sections of the report, in HTML are available from http://www.hcfa.gov/pubforms/tr/default.htm.

The entire report, in PDF format, is available from http://www.hcfa.gov/pubforms/tr/smi1999/smi.pdf.
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Table III.B4 from TR99 (1999 Social Security (OASDI) Trustees Report) at http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/TR99/lr3B4-2.html
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SSA Acturial Note #142 of January 1999 at http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/note142.html
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"The Citizen's Guide To The Federal Budget", by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Feb 1, 1999.
It is a PDF file (size: 1.3 MB).
You can get it by going to http://www.gpo.gov/usbudget/fy2000/maindown.html
and clinking on the link
"A Citizen's Guide to the Federal Budget (size: 1.3 MB)"
Or more directly,
http://www.gpo.gov/usbudget/fy2000/pdf/guide.pdf
In general, to get U.S. budget documents, start at this link:
http://www.gpo.gov/usbudget/
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From "Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2000", by the Office Of Management and Budget (OMB), Feb 1, 1999
The PDF file is 3.2 MB, and is at:
http://www.access.gpo.gov/usbudget/fy2000/pdf/spec.pdf
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Table I -- Summary Of Public Debt Outstanding, January 31, 1999 And Comparative Figures For January 31, 1998 (Amount in Millions of Dollars)" at
http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opds011999.htm.
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Issue Brief - The 1998 Social Security Trustees' Report, May 20, 1998, by The Concord Coalition at http://www.concordcoalition.org/entitlements/ssrep98.html
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Issue Brief - The 1999 Report of the Social Security and Medicare Trustees, May 20, 1999. It comprehensively compares the 3/1999 Report to earlier reports. At
http://concordcoalition.org/medicare/trusteesrpt99.html
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Congressional Research Service Report For Congress (98-422 EPW), "Social Security: and the Federal Budget: What Does Social Security's Being "Off Budget" Mean?", May 5, 1998. At http://www.concordcoalition.org/entitlements/crs050598.html.
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"Saving Social Security: A Framework For Reform" Volume 1, by the Concord Coalition, Updated June 1998 at http://www.concordcoalition.org/entitlements/ssprimer.pdf
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"Saving Social Security: A Framework For Reform" Volume 2, by the Concord Coalition, Updated June 1998 at http://www.concordcoalition.org/entitlements/ssprimer2.pdf
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"Social Security Trustees' Report Indicates That Long-Term Financing Problems Remain Virtually Unchanged", by the Concord Coalition, March 30, 1999. at http://www.concordcoalition.org/news/releases/990330_trusteesreport.html
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"The Truth about Entitlements and The Budget, (Volume III, Number 1 -- January 10, 1997) -- The Myth Of The 2.2 Percent Solution", by the Concord Coalitiion, at http://www.concordcoalition.org/facing_facts/ff_fax28.html
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"The President's Social Security Proposals", February 1999, by Robert L. Bixby, Policy Director of the Concord Coalition at http://www.concordcoalition.org/entitlements/clintonplan0299.html
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Testimony by Robert L. Bixby, Policy Director of the Concord Coalition, before the House Armed Services Committee, Military Personnel Subcommittee, February 25, 1999 at http://www.concordcoalition.org/news/990225bixbytestimony.html
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Michael Hodges Federal Budget Report at http://home.att.net/~mwhodges/fed_budget.htm
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Links Index (Hodges) at http://home.att.net/~mwhodges/links.htm
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Social Security (Hodges) at http://home.att.net/~mwhodges/soc_sec.htm
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Social Security Full Report, Part A (Hodges) at http://home.att.net/~mwhodges/soc_sec-a.htm
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Social Security Full Report, Part B (Hodges) at http://home.att.net/~mwhodges/soc_sec-b.htm
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Deficit and Trust Fund Report (Hodges) at http://home.att.net/~mwhodges/deficit-trusts.htm
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United Seniors Organization's "Misuse Of SSTF" page at http://www.unitedseniors.org/OTI SSTF.htm (its a blank between OTI and SSTF.htm).
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The Social Security Trust Funds: Myth or Reality? by Dorcas R. Hardy at
http://unitedseniors.org/Paper DH- Myth.htm (there are two single blanks in the page name -- i.e. Paper[blank]DH-[blank]Myth.htm).

Dorcas Hardy is a former U.S. Commissioner of Social Security and the co-author of Social Insecurity -- The Crisis in America's Social Security System and How to Plan Now for Your Own Financial Survival (Random House, 1992).
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Fixing Social Security -- Just Another Fraud, revised 4/99 at http://nationaldebt.com/Fixing_Social_Security_just_another_fraud.html

This is a comprehensive page analyzing a January 1999 CBO forecast, and President Clinton's January 1999 State Of The Union plan to "save" social security. He has lots of great graphs. See some of my comments on this work
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E&B0199.PDF - CBO, The Economic and Budget Outlook: Fiscal Years 2000-2009, January 1999. Frequently referred to as E&B0199.PDF
From the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) web site at http://www.cbo.gov,
file: ftp://ftp.cbo.gov/10xx/doc1059/e&b0199.pdf

For other reports, look at the CBO's Reports Page at http://www.cbo.gov/reports.html
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Testimony of CBO Director Dan Crippen before the Senate Budget Committee February 23, 1999 - "The President's Social Security Framework"
http://www.senate.gov/~budget/republican/about/crippen223.pdf
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Dow Breaks 10,000 But Typical Household Wealth Down Since 1983 -- Shifting Fortunes Press Release, from United For A Fair Economy, March 29, 1999 at http://www.stw.org/html/shifting_fortunes_press.html
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Shifting Fortunes: The Perils of the Growing American Wealth Gap, From United For A Fair Economy (March 29, 1999) -- New report reveals growing wealth gap as top 1% of households reap big gains, average worker real wages still under 1973 levels. at http://www.stw.org/html/shifting_fortunes_report.html
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Strengthening Social Security: Why We Can't Wait -- Kenneth S. Apfel Commissioner of Social Security, National Press Club Washington, D.C., December 1, 1998, http://www.ssa.gov/policy/coss_speech.html
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Testimony of Kenneth Apfel, Commissioner for Social Security Hearing before The Committee on Budget, United States Senate, February 23, 1999 http://www.senate.gov/~budget/republican/about/apfel.htm
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Gray Dawn -- How The Coming Age Wave Will Transform America And The World, by Peter G. Peterson, (c) 1999 , Times Book ( a subsidiary of Random House ). It is a "scare" book that sets out to prove that the social security and medicare programs are not economically sustainable. Peter G. Peterson is closely associated with the Concord Coalition at http://www.concordcoaltion.org
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The Great Deficit Scares -- The Federal Budget, Trade, and Social Security, by Robert Eisner, (c) 1997, at The Twentieth Century Fund, Inc./The Century Foundation. It is a "no big problem" book by a liberal who thinks government should do a lot more social spending. The Century Foundation (the new name for the old "Twentieth Century Fund") is a great source of left-leaning economic and social policy books. It also runs the Social Security (and Medicare) web site at www.socsec.org
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Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, "The Truth Is Out There" (The Social Security Trust Fund exists) at
http://www.kiplinger.com//magazine/archives/1999/March/truth.htm
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"Has The 'New Economy' rendered the productivity slowdown Obsolete?", an unpublished 1999 paper by Northwestern Professor Robert Gordon, at
http://faculty-web.at.nwu.edu/economics/gordon
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US News & World Report: "Medicare Healthier For Now - But A Windfall Masks The Coming Problem", April 12, 1999, hopefully at
http://www.usnews.com
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