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Saturday, 22 October 2016 00:00

Screwing With and Screwing the Elderly and Disabled

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Social Security is too important a program to have its benefits calculated based upon the politically motivated calculations one could make on a napkin.

Social Security checks to rise just 0.3% in 2017

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Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:00

Seizing on Popular Support, Dems Unite on Expanding Social Security

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Seizing on Popular Support, Dems Unite on Expanding Social Security

'A few years ago, expanding Social Security was considered a radical idea. Now, it's the official position of the Democratic Party'

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Saturday, 13 February 2016 00:00

Clinton and Sanders Debate How Much to Expand Social Security

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Clinton and Sanders Debate How Much to Expand Social Security

Last night on the debate stage, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, the two candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for president, argued with each other about how much they would expand Social Security.

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Friday, 15 January 2016 00:00

The Damned Lies: Attacking the Trust in America's Retirement System

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The Damned Lies: Attacking the Trust in America's Retirement System

Ever wonder why you hear Republicans and the Right-wing media constantly saying that Social Security is going bankrupt? This drumbeat of catastrophic outcomes for our nation's highly successful retirement security system is not at all connected to fact. It is part of a campaign to degrade public confidence such that support goes down and the framework for privatization is created.

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Sunday, 29 November 2015 00:00

Elizabeth Warren Wants To Make Up Missing Social Security Increase

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Warren reflects on how nice it would be to send grandma some extra cash.

Elizabeth Warren would like to send every senior citizen and disabled veteran in America a check for $580.

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Friday, 24 July 2015 00:00

Democrats win as Social Security cuts removed from Senate highway bill

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Democrats win as Social Security cuts removed from Senate highway bill

Two provisions to cut Social Security benefits in the proposed highway bill caused Democrats in both the Senate and House to revolt. Democrats have succeeded in getting both of those provisions removed, but now Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is facing a serious challenge in getting the bill past his own party, in both chambers of Congress.

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Sunday, 15 March 2015 00:00

Strengthen, Expand Social Security

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2 million petition signatures from supporters of expanding Social Security

As boxes of petitions signed by 2 million Americans were hauled to the Capitol on Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced legislation to expand benefits and strengthen the retirement program for generations to come. The Social Security Expansion Act was filed on the same day Sanders and other senators received the petitions gathered by the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.

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Sunday, 01 March 2015 00:00

The Real Social Security Crisis Is Income Inequality

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The Real Social Security Crisis Is Income Inequality

Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) has called out his Senate Republican colleagues for “creating a phony crisis” with regard to Social Security while ignoring a real one – the income inequality that has eroded the long-term solvency of the Social Security trust fund.

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Wednesday, 18 February 2015 00:00

Why Is No One Talking About the GOP’s Plan to Send Millions of Disabled Americans Into Poverty?

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House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Capitol Hill, February 10, 2015

Despite their virtues, many conservative Republicans have an unfortunate habit of picking on the weak and disadvantaged, slandering the people least able to fight back. We saw a glimpse of this callousness in Mitt Romney’s disparagement of the “47 percent” who are “takers” living off the hard-working “makers.”

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Friday, 13 February 2015 00:00

GOP Assault on Social Security Could be 'Death Sentence' for Nation's Disabled

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"Republicans are manufacturing a phony crisis in Social Security in order to cut the earned benefits of millions of the most vulnerable people in this country," says Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

Republican opposition to a plan that would shore up a critical government safety-net program amounts to a new front in the GOP's class war and could equal a "death sentence" for many poor recipients, defenders of Social Security said this week.

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