The Older Women's League (OWL) rallied this weekend. They organized rallies with members of MoveOn.org outside of "town hall" meetings in 6 cities nationwide, because they were worried. This was all part of a campaign called, "Strengthen Social Security," an effort lead by a group called...
Posted May 26, 2010 | 11:45:42 (EST)
Today, the President's Fiscal Commission meets for the second time to discuss America's financial situation. The mainstream media has failed to focus on the real causes of America's deficit, and instead focuses largely on Social Security and other "entitlement" reform measures. Let's just be clear - Social Security...
Posted April 27, 2010 | 11:47:33 (EST)
Today is the first meeting of the President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. Some of us have been paying very close attention to the discourse leading up to this momentous occasion. For example, Alan K. Simpson, one of the co-chairs insists that the solution...
Posted April 20, 2010 | 11:20:16 (EST)
Today marks Equal Pay Day - the point in the year where women's earnings catch up with men's earnings from the previous year. Tragically, poverty for women in old age too often begins the first day they enter the workforce. When they make decisions about the kind of...
Posted March 26, 2010 | 19:05:52 (EST)
This week the New York Times decided to scare the bejeezus out of everyone by publishing several articles with slanted statements about Social Security. I'd like to revisit some key points in Mary Williams Walsh's piece from March 24 - statements from her article are in bold below.
"The bursting...
Posted January 19, 2010 | 15:15:01 (EST)
WASHINGTON, DC - On Tuesday, January 19, 2010 OWL, AFSCME Retirees, AFT Program on Retirement and Retirees, Alliance for Retired Americans, American Association of University Women, Generations United, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare,...
Posted January 12, 2010 | 21:14:53 (EST)
So, let me get this straight. The solution to all of our deficit and budgetary woes is to take power away from Congress and turn the decisions over to an undemocratic fast-track commission likely to cut Social Security benefits? Is anyone seriously making this argument with a straight face? Yes,...
Posted December 17, 2009 | 11:56:22 (EST)
I was recently invited to speak on Capitol Hill about Social Security's importance to people -- specifically, the real men, women and children who rely on Social Security for survival. The event was sponsored by NASI, The National Academy of Social Insurance, and was titled: "Demystifying the Deficit,...
Posted June 28, 2010 | 13:44:50 (EST)