Tag: Social Security
A bold plan to strengthen and improve social security is what...
In short, this is a well-considered bill that would accomplish good for current and future retirees. Congress should move on it.
You will have Social Security just like your parents and grandparents—if...
We all, young and old, can have the same thing, but we need to demand it and to fight for it.
‘Hell no,’ say Progressives, after GOP Sen. Joni Ernst suggests cutting...
"No matter how hard you try to hide, the American people will be watching—and we won't let you cut our earned Social Security benefits."
NYT presents social security cuts as ‘solution’ to problem of social...
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...
Let’s honor the legacy of Frances Perkins by fighting to expand...
Expanded Social Security and Medicare are important building blocks on the foundation laid down in 1935.
Social Security is the key to progressive change in America
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 pass the Secure 2100 Act
Tell Congress to protect and expand Social Security benefits.
More than 200 House Democrats introduce bill to expand Social Security
The Secure 2100 Act would protect and expand Social Security benefits to ensure no one retires in poverty.
Demand an end to the taxation of Social Security benefits
And no fix they come up with should come out of the pockets of workers or retirees.
Social Security helped slash elderly poverty to 9.2 percent in the...
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.
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