Tag: Social Security

It’s hard to improve on economist and FAIR contributor Dean Baker’s observation that corporate media’s calls for cuts to programs for the elderly under...

Expanded Social Security and Medicare are important building blocks on the foundation laid down in 1935.

We can change all of this, but instead of just letting Congress try and tinker with it, let’s start by building a mass movement to demand a secure and improved Social Security system.

Tell Congress to protect and expand Social Security benefits.

The Secure 2100 Act would protect and expand Social Security benefits to ensure no one retires in poverty.

And no fix they come up with should come out of the pockets of workers or retirees.

So if Americans agree that our elders should never again return to having to age in poverty, there are several ways we can shore up the Social Security system.

Now that Democrats have won control of one house of Congress, we are already starting to see how flawed and disingenuous a bunch of people they really are. It’s not a pretty sight.

Instead of shutting immigrants out, allowing more immigrants into the country will help secure the future of Social Security and Medicare.

"It is genuinely not an exaggeration to say that lives hang in the balance in the midterms, Republicans want to use their political power to kill people."