Sep 14, 2017 | Media Coverage
Cutting immigration rates in half – the stated goal of the Trump administration – would cost Social Security $2.4 trillion in lost payroll tax revenues over the next 75 years, according to an analysis of Social Security data by Nancy Altman, president of...
Jul 24, 2017 | Media Coverage
“By understanding that the root of the problem is concentrated money and power, the starting point is correct,” said Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works. “That lets us end at expanding Medicare for everyone or healthcare as a right. As a starting...
Jul 13, 2017 | Media Coverage
“The numbers make it clear that the question about whether to expand or cut Social Security is a question of values, not affordability,” said Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works and chair of the Strengthen Social Security Coalition. Read more...
Jul 4, 2017 | Media Coverage
“The weakness of the Democratic Party is not due to an underrepresentation of venture capitalists and tech company board members,” said Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works, which advocates for expansion of that federal program. “The philosophical...
Jun 8, 2017 | Media Coverage
Armstrong was attuned to politics. According to Nancy Altman, author and president of Social Security Works, she was an “infighter” whose outspokenness convinced the CES to propose a federal program that addressed old age insurance. With the help of Labor Secretary...
May 22, 2017 | Media Coverage
Nancy Altman of Social Security Works, a leading advocacy group, calls Mulvaney’s attempt to distinguish disability from Social Security “Orwellian,” and properly so. It’s nothing other than a ploy to slither out from a campaign promise that President Trump could not...
