President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law | Photo courtesy of Library of Congress Eighty-three years after President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935, Social Security remains one of the nation’s most successful, effective, and popular programs. Social Security provides a foundation of income on which …
The Kochs helped fund an attack on ‘Medicare for All.’ It still concluded the plan would save us trillions
Los Angeles rally for Medicare for All | Image: Molly Adams via Flickr Creative Commons, https://flic.kr/p/VTKkpN Opponents of Medicare for All (M4A) routinely use large, intimidating numbers to make it appear unaffordable. These figures must be counterbalanced by the even larger costs of doing nothing. Even the Koch-funded study designed to undercut M4A estimates it …
‘Too Little Too Late’: Bankruptcy Booms Among Older Americans
Image: Simon Cunningham via Flickr Creative Commons, https://flic.kr/p/2dMJuG7 For a rapidly growing share of older Americans, traditional ideas about life in retirement are being upended by a dismal reality: bankruptcy. The signs of potential trouble — vanishing pensions, soaring medical expenses, inadequate savings — have been building for years. Now, new research sheds light on …
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