SSI Beneficiaries to Receive Automatic Stimulus Payments
Under pressure from advocates including the National Committee, the Treasury Department has reversed course and will allow SSI beneficiaries to receive
Sacrifice Our Seniors? Not now or Ever.
FOX News analyst Brit Hume calls suggestions for seniors' health to be sacrificed for the economy "entirely reasonable." On
Want Real Fiscal Stimulus? Strengthen Social Security and Roll Back Trump/GOP Tax Scam
The political right has predictably pounced on the recently-released Social Security Trustees report to call for “entitlement reform” – code for
More Proof that “Deficit Reduction” is Really Just Code for Social Security & Medicare Cuts
The Congressional Budget Office's new budget projections show that despite the sky-is-falling crisis calls made by Wall Street backed austerity fanatics
Parsing the State of the Union – Plans for Social Security & Medicare
There was a lot to like about yesterday's State of the Union address. Here are a few highlights: President Barack Obama
Payroll Tax “Holiday” Deadlock
Washington Should Pursue New Middle-Class Stimulus Plan in the New Year So, it's been another wild week in Washington as passage
Cutting Contributions to Social Security Isn’t the ONLY Way to Stimulate the Economy
While Congress negotiates with itself and the President takes his case for further cutting the payroll tax on the road, there?s
Will Washington Keep it’s Promise to Generations of Working Americans?
?Now that this tax cut deal has passed Congress, and $112 billion in Social Security funds will be diverted from the program,
Senate Vote on Tax Cuts: 3pm
The Senate is expected to vote this afternoon to end debate on the bill that extends the Bush tax cuts for