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A Modern Safety Net by Shelley Waters Boots and Karin Martinson, prospect.org | September 17, 2009
We need to update our social contract for the real lives of working families in a brutal economy. read more »The Truth Behind the Social Security and Medicare Alarm Bells by Robert B. Reich, tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com | May 14, 2009
Social Security is a tiny problem. Medicare is a terrible one, but the problem is not really Medicare; it's quickly rising health-care costs. Look more closely and the real problem isn't even health-care costs; it's a system that pushes up costs by rewarding inefficiency, causing unbelievable waste, pushing over-medication, providing inadequate prevention, over-using emergency rooms, and spending billions on advertising and marketing seeking to enroll healthy people and avoid sick ones. read more »The Bankrupt Debate Over Bankrupting Our Children by Dean Baker, Truthout | May 13, 2009
In reality, what determines the well-being of future generations is the whole world that we hand down to them: the public and private capital stock, the state of technical knowledge and the specific skills and education that we give the future workforce as well as the natural environment and resources. read more »Wrong Way Steny by Robert Borosage , OurFuture.org | May 8, 2009
Wrong Way Riegels became a football legend when Roy Riegels, captain of the California football team in the 1929 Rose Bowl picked up a fumble and rumbled the wrong way down the field. He was prevented from scoring a touchdown for the opposing team only when one of his own players tackled him. Now we have the political equivalent: Wrong Way Steny Hoyer could become a political legend for going the wrong way on Social Security unless his own teammates tackle him. read more »How Social Security Can Save Us All by James K. Galbraith , Mother Jones | May 8, 2009
Thank god, Bush failed to privatize Social Security. Now it can help to rescue the economy. read more »Waking Up The "Fiscal Wake-Up Tour" by Bill Scher, OurFuture.org | March 12, 2009
What happens when a blindly ideological outfit pretending to be non-ideological so it can gut Social Security and Medicare gets confronted on videotape? At the "Fiscal Wake-Up Tour" Wednesday night in Boston, it's the outfit itself that gets the jolt. read more »There Is No Social Security Crisis by Paul Waldman, prospect.org | February 24, 2009
It is time to remind everyone about the real facts on Social Security. read more »Supply Side Economics and Generational Theft by Hale Stewart, Huffington Post | February 23, 2009
Sometime over the last few weeks Republicans started to use the phrase "generational theft" to describe the stimulus bill. This is particularly interesting, considering supply-side economics started the idea of massive government debt issuance. read more »The Peter G. Peterson Intergenerational Fairness Tax Credit by Dean Baker, tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com | February 23, 2009
Peter Peterson is out to get your Social Security and Medicare. For those who don't know him, Peterson has long been in the public limelight. read more »The Attack of the Deficit Hawks by Robert Kuttner, The Washington Post | February 23, 2009
We need to increase public spending and debt now to restore economic growth and then gradually reduce the debt ratio once recovery comes. Social Security has little to do with this challenge. Nor does Medicare, if we reform our overall health system. Since the early 1980s, Peter G. Peterson has been warning that future entitlement deficits would crash the economy. Yet when the crash came, the cause was not deficits but wild speculation on Wall Street. read more »
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Lawmakers Seeking Consensus On Social Security Overhaul, The Washington Post | May 6, 2009
Key lawmakers from both parties have held tentative talks about overhauling the Social Security system, and Congress could turn its attention to the federal retirement program as soon as this fall if a bipartisan consensus emerges, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer said. So far, Democrats have found a willing partner in the Senate, where Sen. Lindsey O. read more »
U.S. Spat with Venezuela Grows, i.abcnews.com | September 13, 2008
Article Publication Date:09/14/2008The United States stopped trying to be polite in an escalating diplomatic shoving match with the populist leaders of Venezuela and Bolivia. Washington slapped new sanctions on three aides close to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and called him weak and desperate. The Venezuelan ambassador got the boot for good measure, a move that was purely for show. Chavez had already brought his man home. read more »
Treasury Rekindles Social Security Debate, The Washington Post | December 21, 2007
Article Publication Date:09/25/2007The Bush administration stepped up its attempt to build support for restructuring Social Security, saying in a Treasury Department report that the popular program will require either tax increases or read more »
HSBC Releases Global Survey on the Future of Retirement, thematuremarket.com | December 10, 2007
Some Wait Years for Social Security Disability Payments They're Eligible to Receive, abc15.com | November 7, 2007
Administration Puts Social Security Back On Political Agenda, The Washington Post | September 25, 2007
Good news for Social Security, Medicare, MSNBC News | April 23, 2007
Source URL:Article Publication Date:04/23/2007The trust funds for Social Security and Medicare will last a year longer than previously estimated, trustees said. read more »
Bush Opposition To Tax Increases Biggest Obstacle To Social Security Deal, bloomberg.com | January 30, 2007
