Preserving and strengthening Social Security for Washington State
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?
From the Columbia Journalism Review What Social Security means to real people Jennifer Tayabji is the kind of person that Alan Simpson [a member of the president's deficit commission] likes to talk about. She's young, and fits his conception of some retiree’s grandchild. As the former Wyoming senator likes to say, we have to fix …
Continue reading Social Security in the Heartland: Jennifer Tayabji
From Politico: Democrats are warning President Barack Obama that the fiscal commission he created to help solve the country’s budget problems needs to keep its hands off Social Security. “You have charged the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with proposing recommendations that improve the long-term fiscal outlook and address the growth of entitlement …
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