Tag: Social Security
‘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.
Blocking a Medicare payroll tax rise could rule out Medicare For...
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.
Three easy fixes to Social Security and Medicare that Republicans don’t...
Instead of shutting immigrants out, allowing more immigrants into the country will help secure the future of Social Security and Medicare.
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Power-crazed the president may be, but he fails to grasp soft power.
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The study was a result of researchers discovering the mass die-off of hundreds of monarch butterflies near the Pacific Grove Monarch Sanctuary in California, where the butterflies overwinter.
Will Trump-Putin summit leave Ukraine and Europe out in the cold?
If he repeats his past performances at summits with Putin and appears to back the Russian leader over his country’s closest allies, it is likely to cause a dangerous rift in the western alliance.
Sanders bill seeks to reverse Trump cuts to Social Security and curb billionaire influence
Ahead of Social Security’s 90th anniversary, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced the Keep Billionaires Out of Social Security Act to restore staff and services, add $5 billion for operations, and remove DOGE’s access to sensitive data while probing politicization at the agency.