Preserving and strengthening Social Security for Washington State
From Washington Policy Watch: Online news magazine Slate recently posted scans of comic books published by the Social Security Administration in the 1950s and 1960s designed to inform young people about the importance of Social Security – a common strategy to reach youth at that time. Slate writes: Why should young people care about Social Security? Some …
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A new report by the Institute for Policy Studies examines CEOs of public companies who have endorsed the “Fix the Debt” campaign. The report, “Pension Deficit Disorder: The Massive CEO Retirement Funds and Underfunded Worker Pensions at Firms Pushing Social Security Cuts,” finds that these CEOs, while calling for ordinary Americans to take cuts in …
Via The Stand: (Nov. 2) — AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka recently warned of a debt-reduction deal called the “grand bargain” that’s being negotiated behind closed doors in Washington, D.C., and could be voted upon during the lame-duck session immediately following the election. He said this grand bargain “boils down to lower tax rates for rich …
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