Social Security News

       The Trump Administration's Treasury Secretary has said straight up that the current Administration is creating a "backdoor f...

      Until George W. Bush was President, I don't think any Republicans had noticed Social Security's Chief Actuary, Stephen Goss, w...

      From Alex Lawson, writing for Common Dreams : Mitch McConnell and his fellow Republicans have a problem. They hate Social Security...

     From Michael Hiltzik at the Los Angeles Times (emphasis added): Promoters of privatizing the U.S. Social Security system have neve...

     When George W. Bush campaigned for the partial privatization of Social Security, Andrew Biggs, a Social Security employee, was at his...

     Take a look at the views of the Republican Presidential candidates on Social Security: Jeb Bush : Increase full retirement age, poss...

     The Cato Institute , a right wing "think tank", has issued a set of what it calls "essays" on "downsizing...

     From Social Security Works : Oh, the sweet irony. Pete Peterson  is the conservative billionaire who is a  major financier  in ...

     From the National Journal (emphasis added): With an anxious eye toward the coming debt-ceiling negotiations, House Republicans are...

     Giving us an idea how the right wing views their chances of privatizing Social Security, Daniel Mitchell of the Cato Institute writes...

From the Associated Press : Most of the top Republicans running for president are embracing plans to partially privatize Social Security, ...

From a press release : According to a newly released Stony Brook Poll conducted in association with Left Right Research, a Long Island base...

I am told this video is blocked for those on Social Security's network. This is the first time I have heard of this happening. Are they ...

“You want a fight? ... If anybody in this building wants to take on Social Security — privatize it, change the benefits by altering the co...

From the Crooks and Liars blog : Good grief, this nonsense is just exhausting. Nothing is ever settled with these people, they have been c...

Republicans are not currently proposing to privatize Social Security but it appears that they are set to propose what amounts to privatizing...

Andrew Biggs, the former Social Security Deputy Commissioner during the Bush Administration who may be the biggest promoter of Social Securi...

From Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, writing at the Huffington Post : Sometime in the spring the gov...