Preserving and strengthening Social Security for Washington State
Image: GotCredit via FlickrCreative Commons, https://flic.kr/p/MezZcf If the blue wave in the midterm elections falls short, there is every reason to believe that a Republican Congress, freed from the immediate threat of elections, would do what it narrowly failed to do last year: repeal the Affordable Care Act. This would cause tens of millions of …
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The Social Security Board Records Office, Baltimore, MD, circa 1937 | Photo courtesy of Library of Congress Eighty-three years ago, the Social Security Act was signed into law. It was Aug. 14, 1935, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in his first term as president. Social Security is benefits the elderly, as well as disabled individuals, …
Image: American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, via Flickr Creative Commons, https://flic.kr/p/oZYtDi Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) unveiled a novel idea for offering parental leave to more Americans on Thursday: Having them pay for it with their own retirement savings. Instead of mandating that employers cover paid family leave, or proposing …
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