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...
Nov 25, 2013 | Latest News, Media Coverage
By Gaius Publius Yes, you read that right: End the retirement crisis by increasing Social Security benefits now. There is a retirement crisis, and the only part of the solution that’s in government hands is Social Security benefits. If government really want to...
Nov 25, 2013 | Latest News, Media Coverage
By Ross Eisenbrey Huffington Post reports a recent floor speech where Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) condemned the notion that we ought to be cutting back on Social Security benefits rather than expanding them: “Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) recently joined the...
