INTERVIEW – Vance Ginn- director of the Center for Economic Prosperity and a senior economist at the Texas Public Policy Foundation

Topic- Economic News

• • • Social Security recipients will get 2.8 percent bigger checks in 2019. The program will also be adjusted in several other important ways next year that could affect the payments you receive or how much you pay into the system.
    • The U.S. is back on top as the most competitive country in the world, regaining the No. 1 spot for the first time since 2008 in an index produced by the World Economic Forum, which said the country could still do better on social issues.