Social Security Works spoke to several conservatives at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this past Friday, who were none too pleased to hear Mitt Romney's plans to cut Social Security and Medicare.

Below is a video Social Security Works put together contrasting Romney's statements on Social Security and...

In the GOP response to President Obama's state of the union address, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels argued that Social Security should be means-tested, rather than asking the rich to pay their fair share of taxes to the program. While this proposal may sound innocuous, in fact, means testing would save...

In the New York Times on Tuesday, David Brooks attributed Rick Santorum's last-minute surge in the polls to the appeal of his family values platform with working-class whites. If Brooks is right, then those same voters should take a second look at Santorum's position on Social Security,...

The Strengthen Social Security Campaign has created a guide evaluating the "friendliness" of six Republican candidates, "Among Republican Candidates, Not a Single Friend of Social Security." The Campaign has also produced longer individual profiles of Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich's particular records on...

Days after the tents were ripped out of Zuccotti Park in New York, hundreds of Americans brought the fight for the 99% to the nation's capital on Thursday with a "Wake-Up Congress" rally calling for the Super Committee to support "Jobs, Not Cuts" to key social programs. Senator Barbara Mikulski...

A recent study reveals how rising income inequality is jeopardizing Social Security's finances.

It is by now common to hear Social Security advocates demand that we "scrap the cap" on earnings subject to the Social Security payroll tax.

This is an important appeal. Few Americans realize that millionaires only...

During a National Nurses United (NNU)-sponsored march from Lafayette Square and the Treasury Department to the #OccupyDC encampment in McPherson Square on Thursday, I got the chance to talk to NNU member Tonya Moss, who came more than 1,000 miles to protest Wall Street's outsize power over our political system....

A proposal to increase the Medicare eligibility age, which the Super Committee is considering, would drive up health care costs to the point where they would consume almost half of the Social Security check of a middle-class retiree, according to a new analysis by Social Security Works.
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A few weeks after calling Social Security a "Ponzi scheme," Rick Perry claims he has just the plan to save the program. That is nothing but a monstrous lie.

In fact, Perry's Social Security plan is...

The Keeping Our Social Security Promises Act, S.1558, introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), strengthens Social...

As we return to work after Labor Day weekend, it is important to recognize all that Social Security does for American workers. The best way to do that is to make sure workers know the facts about the program.

Social Security is America's largest and most important pension, disability...

The media have portrayed Governor Rick Perry's description of Social Security as a "Ponzi scheme" at a recent Iowa campaign event as the latest extreme statement of an unconventionally candid, conservative presidential candidate. But Perry's full remarks reveal just as much about the Republican Party's strategy for cutting...

President Obama said that Social Security is not an "entitlement," or a "driver of the deficit or debt," at a Minnesota Town Hall meeting on Monday. Then why is he allowing a Super Committee charged with deficit reduction to address the program?

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The chained Consumer Price Index (CPI), a provision included in the Gang of Six's deficit reduction package, raises taxes on low-and moderate-income workers, according to a recent report by the Joint Committee on Taxation. This belies the claim that the harm done to the middle class by the...

The chained CPI, a Social Security COLA cut on the table in deficit talks between the President and Republicans, could dramatically worsen poverty among unmarried senior African American women. As such, it violates the request of major progressive organizations in a letter to the White House and Congressional...

Although specifics have yet to officially emerge, there is little doubt that among the Social Security benefit cuts the President is proposing will be a reduction in Social Security's annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) through an obscure change in the COLA formula known as the chained CPI (Consumer Price Index).

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Giving companies money does not mean they'll hire.

Especially when they have record amounts of cash, like they do now, companies are more likely to use additional capital to re-invest in assets, re-purchase stock, and do other non-hiring-type activities.

That's what Jared Bernstein said in a...

People are basically divided into two camps on the news that AARP has endorsed Social Security cuts. One thinks it's a big deal, the other, not so much. I spent some time over the course of the Netroots Nation convention in Minneapolis explaining to the latter camp why it is,...

AARP claims that their openness (read: support) for cuts to Social Security benefits is based on an understanding that tax increases alone will not close the program's modest funding gap. But that's just not true. If we made millionaires and billionaires contribute to Social Security on all of their earnings,...

The White House is considering adopting a temporary Social Security tax cut on employers to stimulate the economy as part of the debt ceiling negotiations with the Republicans, according to a Bloomberg News article. If the Administration so much as puts another Social Security tax cut on the...