Dec 3, 2013 | Latest News, Media Coverage
By Heidi Przybyla U.S. budget negotiators are close to a deal to ease automatic spending cuts that congressional aides say could increase airline and other user fees instead of ending some corporate tax breaks and making federal workers contribute more to retirement...
Dec 3, 2013 | Latest News, Media Coverage
By MANU RAJU and JAKE SHERMAN House and Senate negotiators are pushing to finalize a small-scale deal to set spending levels and replace sequester cuts for the next two years, a potential respite in the bitter budget wars consuming Congress. The two congressional...
Dec 3, 2013 | Latest News, Media Coverage
By Amanda Terkel WASHINGTON — A pair of House Republicans have a new bill that would spare the military from sequestration by cutting the Social Security benefits of many Americans who already experience painful federal budget cuts. Reps. Jim Bridenstine...
Dec 3, 2013 | Latest News, Media Coverage
By Michael Hiltzik The apparent explosion in Social Security disability claimants in recent years has provided endless fodder for critics of the program. Their favored explanation is that the growth in the ranks of the disabled, from 250,000 new claimants a year in...
Dec 2, 2013 | Latest News, Media Coverage
More than ever, we seem infatuated with the fruits of unproductive avarice R.J. ESKOW, ALTERNET “The fantasy of wealth seemed somehow different in that context. Today we’re a nation being preached to by “bipartisan” corporate politicians who lecture us on the...
Dec 2, 2013 | Latest News, Media Coverage
Click Here to hear our Co-director Eric Kingson explain why America is not shortchanging kids to help seniors. “Cutting back on the young is like eating the seed corn: satisfying a momentary need but leaving no way to grow a prosperous future,” wrote...
