Tag: Social Security
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.
‘Lives hang in the balance:’ 21 days before midterms, McConnell admits...
"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."
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, October 4
#MeToo unites against Kavanaugh, more proof Trump EPA 'working for coal millionaires', Sanders introduces bill to break up nation's largest Wall Street banks, and more.
The truth about Social Security: Setting the record straight
Eighty-three years later, Social Security addresses universal economic risks that have always been with us and always will be.
Some straight talk for younger people on Social Security (and Medicare...
As the scaremongering begins, this is your fight too!
We need a mass movement to save and expand Social Security...
Old, young, men and women of all races fighting together.
The next big fight
Hands off Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security — expand and improve these programs — don’t cut them.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.