He could reduce marginal deduction rates by not increasing benefits.
Mr. Gore, too, has proposed increasing benefits for the troops.
He then proposed increasing benefits for widows and low-income workers.
We should go beyond "saving Social Security" to both strengthening the Trust Fund and increasing benefits.
In approving the increases, the trustees cited rising energy costs, increasing benefits for faculty and declining state financing.
The great thing about feeding infants well is that it starts a virtuous circle, with increasing benefits for succeeding generations.
Economists use "network effects" to describe contexts where a good or service offers increasing benefits the more users it has.
It suggested increasing benefits for the first generation of retirees, even though that group had paid little in payroll taxes.
As our work continues, we anticipate that we will show increasing benefits as pollution is further reduced.
Not only would this be costlier than targeting lone parents; by increasing benefits, it would make work less attractive.
But increasing benefits substantially will be difficult as the ratio of pensioners to working-age migrants increases.
