Preserving and strengthening Social Security for Washington State
Dear Representatives & Senators: On October 3rd, 2019, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) entitled “Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation’s Seniors.” Rather than protecting and improving Medicare, the EO threatens to do incalculable harm to present and future Medicare beneficiaries. Congress should take steps to equalize the two Medicare programs to assure …
Continue reading An open letter to Washington’s Congressional delegation
[Center on Budget and Policy Priorities] This summer’s budget deal between President Trump and congressional leaders offers enough total discretionary dollars to give the Social Security Administration (SSA) a much-needed funding boost in 2020, but the Senate majority plans to cut $2.7 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars from the appropriations bill that funds SSA operations. That …
Continue reading Senate Bill Would Cut Social Security Operations Again
[Washington Post] Poorer Americans are much less likely to survive into their 70s and 80s than rich Americans, a stark life-expectancy divide compounded by the nation’s growing disparities in wealth, according to a federal report. Over three-quarters of the richest 50-somethings in 1991 were still alive in 2014, the report found. But among the poorest …
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