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How To Argue For A Public Option On Health Insurance

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Paul Krugman, Medicare, Social Security, Public Option, Obama Health Care, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News

What supporters of the public option most need is a clear line of argument. That line of argument is rooted in the fact that the vast majority of Americans think Medicare is great.

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Pelosi Outlines August Plan Of Attack

politico.com | DAVID ROGERS | | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, House of Representatives, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Social Security, Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Nancpy Pelosi, August Recess, Health Care, Politics News

Speaker Nancy Pelosi outlined a doubled-edged message for selling health care reform in August: one part pro-consumer and the second, attacking the he...

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"Parochial Considerations"

David Sirota | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Social Security, Medicare, Health Care, Politics News

Congress isn't giving into "parochial considerations" when it hands Goldman Sachs billions of dollars. But the programs that undergird our basic welfare? Sorry, that's a "parochial consideration" that must be dealt with harshly.

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Same-Sex Marriage as a Means to Something Better

Carlos A. Ball | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance, Gay Rights, Nancy Polikoff, Social Security, Marriage Equality, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News

Our goal over the long run should be to lessen the prioritization of marital status in the distribution of rights and benefits.

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Vanishing Social Security COLA Adjustment Will Squeeze Some Seniors

Mark Miller | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Social Security, Economic Recession, Inflation, Cost of Living, Recession, Retirement, Retirement Funds, Senior Citizens, Saving for Retirement, Social Security Crisis, Social Security Benefits, Cola, Business News

The vanishing COLA will squeeze many retirees hard. Social Security provides, on average, about 39 percent of income for retired households and more than 50 million people receive benefits.

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Plugging Along At 62 With Lots Of Debt, No Job And No Credit

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit Cards, Unemployed, Unemployment, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Credit Crisis, Down-Not-Out, Bearing Witness 2.0, Bearing Witness, Business News

James O'Connell of California wrote the Huffington Post in response to an item about credit card companies tightening payment requirements for cardhol...

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Bobby Jindal, Dan Quayle and Socialist Health Care

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ronald McDonald, Joe the Plumber, Ronald Reagan, Bobby Jindal, Social Security, Josef Stalin, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Red Baiting, Dan Quayle, Health Care Reform, Fox News, Jimmy Carter, Socialism, Medicare, Republican Party, Politics News

Fear, not surprisingly, has remained one of the key tenets of the Republican message during Obama's presidency.

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Seance on Wall Street

Dean Baker | Posted 08.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Budget Deficit, Stimulus, Medicare, Wall Street, Social Security, U.S. Budget, Budget, Business News

Those who want fantastic stories about the unknowable would be much better off visiting people who promise to communicate with the dead than listening to the Wall Street spokespeople.

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The Day They Arrested President Roosevelt

Robert Naiman | Posted 08.17.2009 | World

Read More: Social Security, Labor, Labor Unions, New Deal, Manuel Zelaya, Los Angeles Times, Fdr, Honduras, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Honduras Coup, Foreign Policy, World News

Imagine how different America might be today, if FDR had been deposed in a coup. That's what happened in Honduras, where President Zelaya was deported for proposing a referendum on reforming the constitution.

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Women Face High Risk of Outliving Their Money

Mark Miller | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Social Security, Poverty, Retirement, Longevity, Business News

Here's some bad news for men: We don't live as long as women. But there's bad news for women, too: you might live too long--financially speaking.

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The Case for Broad-based Health Care Funding

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Jim McDermott, Public Option, Earl Blumenauer, Healthcare, Social Security, Health Care Reform, Medicaid, Medicare, Health Care, Politics News

Reform should be financed with a small increase in the Medicare payroll tax by about a third of a percentage point. For about half of working Americans, this would cost a latte a week ($3) or less.

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Obama Revives Bush Plan To Seek Out Illegal Workers

The Washington Post | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Dhs, Bush, Jeff Sessions, Social Security, Obama Immigration, President Obama, George W. Bush, Immigration, Immigrants, Obama, Department of Homeland Security, Barack Obama, Janet Napolitano, Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Workers, Politics News

President Obama will abandon a controversial immigration crackdown, sought by his predecessor, to pressure U.S. companies to fire 9 million workers wi...

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Social Security Numbers Cracked, Creates Identity Theft Risk

Robert Siciliano | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Carnegie Mellon, Social Security, Identity Theft, Business News

Carnegie Mellon researchers were able to guess the first five digits of a Social Security number on their first attempt for 44% of people born after 1988.

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Social Security number code cracked, study claims

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Social Security Numbers Can Be Guessed, Social Security, Guess Social Security Numbers, Ss Numbes Can Be Guessed, Social Security Numbers, Politics News

WASHINGTON — For all the concern about identity theft, researchers say there's a surprisingly easy way for the technology-savvy to figure out th...

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In Dependence Day 2009

Larry Gellman | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Sanford, American Revolution, US Military, Congress, Social Security, America, Economy, Cheney, George W. Bush, President Obama, Redistribution of Wealth, Obama, Democratic Party, Bush Tax Cuts, Dick Cheney, Deficit, Military, Wealth, Tax Cuts, Enlistment Bonuses, Financial Crisis, Medicare, Republican Party, Taxes, Credit Crisis, Entitlement, Democrats, Fourth of July, Barack Obama, Iraq War, John Ensign, Federal Budget Deficit, Independence Day, Sarah Palin, Military Recruiting, Iraq, Republicans, Politics News

We have never been more reliant on the generosity of others and less able to act like grown-ups and fend for ourselves than any time since the Revolution.

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Are You Really Married? (Hundreds of Thousands of Gay Couples Say They Are)

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: 2010 Census, Marriage, Social Security, Irs, US Census Bureau, Demographics, Defense of Marriage Act, Stonewall, Gay Marriage, Politics News

One of the dirty not-so-little-secrets of the same-sex marriage debate is that the everyday benefits of marriage don't require legal marriage at all.

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Funding Social Security and Healthcare in a Globalized Economy: A Progressive Sales Tax on Goods and Services

Paul Abrams | Posted 07.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Social Security, Progressive Sales Tax, Healthcare, Globalized Economy, Business News

By linking a tax to entitlements, it is "transparent", i.e., if the country wants to increase or decrease the benefits, it will know what percent change in the sales' tax is required.

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Health Care: France & the U.S., Social Security and the Single-Payer Model

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Securite Sociale, Sarkozy, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Social Security, Brigitte Marti, Obama, Health Care, Veterans, Barack Obama Mother, Normandy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fdr, French President Sarkozy, Barack Obama Normandy, Politics News

France enjoys the benefit of a National Health Program or 'assurance maladie.' Typically, social protection and health care work in combination and that is a concept widely accepted in Europe.

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Son Posed As Dead Mom To Collect $117,000 In Government Benefits: DA

AP | Posted 07.19.2009 | New York

Read More: Social Security Checks, New York, Stupid Criminals, Social Security, Brooklyn, New York City, New York News

Thomas Parkin, 49, was charged Wednesday in the bizarre plot to impersonate his deceased mother so he could collect $117,000 in government benefits.

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Four Reasons Why Giving Consumers the Choice of a Public Health Insurance Plan Is Great Politics for Democrats

Robert Creamer | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Social Security, Public Health Insurance Plan, Private Health Insurance Companies, Health Care Debate, President Obama, Medicare Part D, Breaking News, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Ama, Politics News

The private health insurance industry has begun to spin the narrative that offering consumers a choice of a public health insurance plan is never going to pass Congress. This narrative is flat wrong.

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Recession Forces a Bad Choice: Filing Early for Social Security

Mark Miller | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Layoffs, Social Security, Unemployment, Recession, Business News

New federal government data shows that applications for Social Security benefits are running well ahead of the rate expected due solely to aging of the population.

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The U.S. is on a Fast Track to Bankruptcy

Sheldon Filger | Posted 07.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: u.s. Deficits, Financial Crisis, Medicare, David M. Walker, Bill-Gross-Pimco, u.s. National Debt, Social Security, Global Economic Crisis, US Debt, Global Financial Crisis, US Deficit, Beijing-China, China, Politics News

There is no rabbit to pull out of a magician's hat.

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Bernanke's Real Message About Budget Deficits

Robert Reich | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Taxes, Ben Bernanke Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Social Security, Bernanke Testimony, Business News

Has Ben Bernanke suddenly become a deficit hawk? In remarks to the House Budget Committee he sounded like one -- calling on Congress to come up with a plan to restore fiscal balance.

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Creditors Use Social Security, Disability Benefits Loophole

wsj.com | ELLEN E. SCHULTZ | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Social Security Administration, Creditors, Social Security, Consumer Credit, Disabilty Benefits, Disability, Business News

A bipartisan group of legislators is pressing the Treasury Department to close a loophole that has allowed banks to seize Social Security and disabili...

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