Social Security

Ways and Means Democrats Blast Republican Plan to Shut Down Social Security

February 16, 2011 by Source
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From California Congressman Xavier Becerra’s website GOP proposal would lead to a month of furloughs at Social Security Administration WASHINGTON, DC—The 2011 budget plan presented this week by the House Republican Majority strips $1.7 billion away from the Social Security Administration (SSA) for the remainder of the year, a cut so drastic that SSA would […]

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Social Security, Part 1 – Speaking Truth to Fear

February 9, 2011 by Patty Jones
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There has been a lot of scary talk in the mainstream media and from politicians regarding Social Security, and it’s not been just lately, it’s been going on for decades. Using words like crisis, bankrupt, crisis, “trust fund raids”, crisis,  opponents of Social Security have been putting fear and doubt into the hearts and minds […]

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Election Madness

February 14, 2008 by Staff

By Howard Zinn, The Progressive – March 2008 Issue There’s a man in Florida who has been writing to me for years (ten pages, handwritten) though I’ve never met him. He tells me the kinds of jobs he has held-security guard, repairman, etc. He has worked all kinds of shifts, night and day, to barely […]

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