Expand and Protect Social Security (19)
Screwing With and Screwing the Elderly and Disabled
Written by Dave Lindorff | Common Dreams
Social Security checks to rise just 0.3% in 2017
Seizing on Popular Support, Dems Unite on Expanding Social Security
Written by Nika Knight | Common Dreams
'A few years ago, expanding Social Security was considered a radical idea. Now, it's the official position of the Democratic Party'
Clinton and Sanders Debate How Much to Expand Social Security
Written by Nancy Altman | Huffington Post Blog
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.
The Damned Lies: Attacking the Trust in America's Retirement System
Written by Ernie Powell | The Huffington Post
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.
Elizabeth Warren Wants To Make Up Missing Social Security Increase
Written by Arthur Delaney | The Huffington Post
Elizabeth Warren would like to send every senior citizen and disabled veteran in America a check for $580.
Democrats win as Social Security cuts removed from Senate highway bill
Written by Joan McCarter | Daily Kos
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.
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.
The Real Social Security Crisis Is Income Inequality
Written by Sen. Bernie Sanders | Campaign for America's Future
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.
Why Is No One Talking About the GOP’s Plan to Send Millions of Disabled Americans Into Poverty?
Written by William Greider | The Nation
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.”
GOP Assault on Social Security Could be 'Death Sentence' for Nation's Disabled
Written by Deirdre Fulton | Common Dreams
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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House rule sets up election-year battle over Social Security
Written by STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | AOL
Buried in new rules that will govern the House for the next two years is a provision that could force an explosive battle over Social Security's finances on the eve of the 2016 presidential election.
'Hostage-Takers': Republicans Go After Social Security on Very First Day
Written by Jon Queally | Common Dreams
Advocacy groups vow to fight back against what they believe is a preliminary "stealth attack" that portends a wider assault on a program that makes survival possible for millions of vulnerable Americans
5 Most Economically Vulnerable Groups of Aging Americans Who Need Social Security
Written by Nancy J. Altman and Eric R. Kingson |AlterNet
(Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from a new book, “Social Security Works! Why Social Security Isn’t Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All,” published by The New Press, 2015, all rights reserved. Order a copy here.)
5 Most Economically Vulnerable Groups of Aging Americans Who Need Social Security
Written by Nancy J. Altman and Eric R. Kingson |AlterNet
(Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from a new book, “Social Security Works! Why Social Security Isn’t Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All,” published by The New Press, 2015, all rights reserved. Order a copy here.)
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