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Social Security
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President Obama’s 2016 Budget Is Relatively Good on Social Security
But, over the long term, the president's budget proposal leaves some cause for concern.
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Obama Tips His Hat to FDR
He has nothing to fear.
Do You, Married Person, Take These Unearned Privileges, for Better or for Better?
Despite a growing social awareness of racism and white privilege, singlism and marital privilege have gone largely unrecognized.
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AP Reports That 99.8 Percent of Social Security Disability Payments Were Proper
The news service devoted a major article to reporting that $2 billion in benefit payments over the last seven years appear to have been given to people who did …
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Social Security Still Going Strong at 70
The truth is that Social Security wasn't broke in 1980, 1990, or 2012, and it's not broke today.
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Generational Warriors? Secure Your Wallet
Without Social Security, my mother would be dependent on me. I'd have to find a second job.
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The Veterans Affairs Scandal and Plans for Downsizing the Social Security Administration
Unfortunately the VA system is not the only part of the government where essential services may be threatened by cutbacks. The Social Security Administration has recently disclosed plans for …
Social Security Threatens to Close All Field Offices
Answers have never been farther than your local Social Security office, where employees are extensively trained to give you accurate and helpful answers. There's a reason Social Security is …
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Retirement Accounts for Everyone
The Connecticut legislature is considering a bill that create a publicly administered retirement plan that would be open to anyone who works at a company with more than five …
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Flat Tax for Social Security
The FICA payroll tax may be the most regressive tax in the developed world: The least a progressive administration could do would be to remove the taxable maximum.