• Is the Bowles-Simpson plan coming back from the dead?
  • AFL-CIO says Social Security is the solution, not the problem
  • Among GOP Presidential Candidates, Not a Single Friend of Social Security
  • Even Conservatives don't want Mitt Romney to cut Social Security and Medicare

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Social Security News 5-03-12
    05/03

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Huffington Post (NAT)

Russ Feingold: Nancy Pelosi Needs To Stand Strong

05-03-12

Ryan Grim

"I hope that support for Bowles-Simpson is not part of the congressional Democrats strategy to embarrass their Republican colleagues who they can be sure will not support Bowles-Simpson because it contains some tax increases," Kingson told HuffPost.

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Social Security News 5-02-12
    05/02

 Huffington Post (NAT)

When Liberals Attack - Social Security: Drum v. Lieberman

05-02-12

Richard (RJ) Eskow

Social Security benefit cuts would hurt millions of disabled and elderly people. And clear-eyed historians of the future won't just point their fingers at radical right-wingers.  They'll also cite collaborators in the Democratic Party.

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Social Security News 5-01-12
    05/01

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Alter Inspire (Blog)

Aging Population Stresses Medicare

05/01/12

Staff

“No one is saying you don’t have to maintain it,” said Eric Kingson, co-chair of the Strengthen Social Security Campaign and professor of social work at Syracuse University.  “What I worry about is reducing the benefit structure or radically changing the system.”  Kingson believes that Social Security can be shored up by simply increasing the amount of wages subject to Social Security taxes — an idea that the majority of Republicans in Congress oppose.

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Social Security News 4-30-12
    04/30

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Public News Service (NAT)

Will Social Security Last for Gen X, Y, Z?

04-30-12

Some economists and policy makers suggest keeping the current program for those 55 and older and offering younger workers the chance to invest over one-third of their Social Security Taxes into private retirement plans. Nancy Altman, co-director of Social Security Works, sees this as the wrong approach. She says the program is efficient the way it is.

 

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