Tag: Social Security
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.
‘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.
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Appeals court rules the constitution guarantees no right to clean water
A dissenting judge compared the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis to Flint's
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The deals let companies raise prices overseas while carving blockbuster obesity drugs out of required discounts.