Preserving and strengthening Social Security for Washington State
(Originally published 2/21/2011) By Jacob Lew, President Obama's Chief of Staff | USA Today: The budget put forward by President Obama last week is a blueprint for how we can live within our means and win the future. As this begins the budgeting process in Washington, we need to be clear about the causes of …
Continue reading USA Today: Social Security isn’t the problem
A recent article by James K. Galbraith in Mother Jones News is in one respect a call to arms - a powerful reminder of how public decisions made by those we elect to office affect our lives and jobs, houses and health, and paychecks and wealth. But it is also a (perhaps unintentional) call for …
Continue reading A call for apathy in the face of attacks on Social Security and the middle class?
Anna Turner is publicly calling out her friends for not bothering to learn what they have at stake in Social Security: I don't bring up Social Security much around my friends, probably because it's not exactly the most riveting topic, but mainly because I know most of us in our twenties haven't given our retirement …
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