Daniel Marans

  • Published At CPAC, Romney's Calls for Cutting Social Security and Medicare Rankle Conservative Rank-and-File (Blog entry)
    February 16, 2012 - 12:13pm

    Social Security Works spoke to several conservatives at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this past Friday, who were none too pleased to hear Mitt Romney he plans to cut Social Security and Medicare.

  • Published Mitch Daniels' SOTU Response Wrong on Social Security (Blog entry)
    January 25, 2012 - 5:50pm

    In the GOP response to President Obama’s state of the union address, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels argued that Social Security should be means-tested, rather than asking the rich to pay their fair share of taxes to the program. While this proposal may sound innocuous, in fact, means testing would save Social Security little money, erode its fundamental character, and cost it political support.

  • Published Santorum's Anti-Family Stance on Social Security (Blog entry)
    January 3, 2012 - 7:35pm

    In the New York Times on Tuesday, David Brooks attributed Rick Santorum’s last-minute surge in the polls to the appeal of his family values platform with working-class whites. If Brooks is right, then those same voters should take a second look at Santorum’s position on Social Security, a program that represents the best of American family values.

  • Published Among GOP Candidates, Not a Single Friend of Social Security (Blog entry)
    December 19, 2011 - 12:58pm

    The Strengthen Social Security Campaign has created a guide evaluating the “friendliness” of six Republican candidates, “Among Republican Candidates, Not a Single Friend of Social Security.” The Campaign has also produced longer individual profiles of

    Published Senator Sanders, Ordinary Americans #OccupytheSuperCommittee (Blog entry)
    November 17, 2011 - 7:13pm

    Days after the tents were ripped out of Zucotti Park in New York, hundreds of Americans brought the fight for the 99% to the nation’s capital on Thursday with a “Wake-Up Congress” rally calling for the Super Committee to support “Jobs, Not Cuts” to key social programs. Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) fittingly called it “#OccupyThe SuperCommittee.”

  • Published How Income Inequality Undermines Social Security's Finances (Blog entry)
    November 15, 2011 - 12:39pm

    A recent study reveals how rising income inequality is jeopardizing Social Security’s finances.

  • Published Mrs. Moss Goes to Washington (Blog entry)
    November 4, 2011 - 5:25pm

    During a National Nurses United (NNU)-sponsored march from Lafayette Square and the Treasury Department to the #OccupyDC encampment in McPherson Square on Thursday, I got the chance to talk to NNU member Tonya Moss, who came more than 1,000 miles to protest Wall Street’s outsize power over our political system.

  • Published Raising Medicare Eligibility Age Erodes Social Security, New Study Shows (Blog entry)
    November 3, 2011 - 6:09pm

    A proposal to increase the Medicare eligibility age, which the Super Committee is considering, would drive up health care costs to the point where they would consume almost half of the Social Security check of a middle-class retiree, according to a

  • Published Perry’s Social Security Plan: A “Monstrous Lie” (Blog entry)
    October 26, 2011 - 12:39pm

    A few weeks after calling Social Security a “Ponzi scheme,” Rick Perry claims he has just the plan to save the program. That is nothing but a monstrous lie.

  • Published Sanders Bill "Goes Big" for Social Security (Blog entry)
    September 21, 2011 - 6:34pm

    The Sanders bill “goes big” for Social Security--the nation’s most important pension, life and disability insurance plan.