Aug 13, 2015 | Latest News
“We applaud Senator Brian Schatz for introducing the Safeguarding American Families and Expanding Social Security Act, which increases Social Security’s modest benefits, including those of seniors, people with disabilities, children who are orphaned and others,”...
Aug 10, 2015 | Latest News
Social Security and the Republican Debate: Donald Trump and Mike Huckabee vs. Jeb Bush and the Others Nancy Altman, founding co-director of Social Security Works In the Republican debate, Americans got a glimpse at what their economic future might hold if one of the...
Jul 30, 2015 | Latest News
Medicare at Age 50: Building on Its Success Nancy J. Altman, President of Social Security Works Medicare — signed into law fifty years ago, on July 30, 1965 — was supposed to be just the first step. For the fifty years before Medicare’s enactment,...
Dec 4, 2013 | Latest News, Media Coverage
BY JUDD LEGUM AND ADAM PECK In the pages of today’s Wall Street Journal, the leaders of the centrist think tank Third Way argue that the economic populism of Elizabeth Warren would be politically “disastrous” for Democrats. To embrace her policies, Jon Cowan and Jim...
Dec 4, 2013 | Latest News, Media Coverage
BY ZACHARY A. GOLDFARB President Obama on Tuesday bemoaned growing income inequality and declining economic opportunity, sounding the populist economic themes that he has invoked at critical moments in his presidency. “There’s a dangerous and growing inequality and...
Dec 4, 2013 | Latest News, Media Coverage
By JACKIE CALMES Even as the president acknowledged widespread cynicism that has been stoked by his administration’s mismanagement of Healthcare.gov, the new federal insurance website, he said repeatedly that government’s role was to give Americans a hand up, not a...
