By Greg Burns |  Everybody knew it was coming, but it arrived faster than almost anyone
expected. As of this year, Social Security will be running in the red
for the first time in a quarter-century, thanks to the lingering recession.

In fact, more than 2.7 million piled into the program last year as job prospects
dwindled, up almost half a million from a busy year in 2008.

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