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Rand: Can Wolves really win 50 games?

There are a lot of reasons to be optimistic this season, even if you've been burned in the past.

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There are a lot of reasons to be optimistic this season, even if you've been burned in the past.

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WHY IT MATTERS: Social Security

THE ISSUE: More than 60 million retirees, disabled workers, spouses and children rely on monthly Social Security benefits. That's nearly one in five Americans. The trustees who oversee Social Security say the program has enough money to pay full benefits until 2034. But at that point, Social Security will collect only enough taxes to pay 79 percent of benefits. Unless Congress acts, millions of people on fixed incomes would get an automatic 21 percent cut in benefits.

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