https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti74bDmqvZs Fresh off passing massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, Trump and congressional Republicans want to use the deficit they’ve created to justify huge cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. As House Speaker Paul Ryan says “We’re going to have to get… at entitlement reform, which is how you tackle the debt …

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By steadily squeezing funding for the Social Security administration, Republicans have created a world... ...where seniors and their caregivers have to drive miles from their homes to visit a Social Security office. ...where bereaved widows and widowers with young children have to wait weeks for an appointment to claim the Social Security survivor benefits that …

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Image: Philip Taylor via Flickr Creative Commons, https://flic.kr/p/bDdcmL Happy New Year - and happy new you! Time to take stock of your joints, your gut, and your wallet. The latter includes the biggest source of wealth most of us will ever have – Social Security. For a young family, the insurance value of Social Security …

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