Edited by Jenny Jiang Partial transcript of remarks by senior White House officials on chained-CPI and Social Security savings proposed in the FY2014 budget. The press briefing was…
Edited by Jenny Jiang Partial transcript of remarks by Jeffrey Zients, Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), on President Barack Obama’s FY2014 budget. The…
Former Senator Alan Simpson (R-Wy.) and former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles are pressing Congress and the Obama administration to reduce the deficit by another…
Transcript of excerpts from the Politico Playbook Breakfast with Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, on sequestration and deficit…
ANALYSIS: Earlier this week, the White House proposed cutting Social Security spending by adjusting how the government calculates cost-of-living increases for seniors. In an effort to strike a…
President Barack Obama spoke to Republican House Speaker John Boehner again last night and presented a counter-offer to avert the fiscal cliff. The fiscal cliff refers to the…
The National Committee to Protect Social Security & Medicare released a report this month urging Congress to improve Social Security benefits for older women who are facing growing…
Press briefing Q&A on the National Committee to Protect Social Security & Medicare’s proposals to improve Social Security benefits for women (May 11, 2012): Max Richtman, President of…
Remarks by Terry O’Neill, President of the National Organization of Women, on the NCPSSM’s report on women and Social Security (May 11, 2012): “I think that if there…
Remarks by Dr. Heidi Hartmann, President of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, on the NCPSSM’s proposed reforms to improve Social Security benefits for women (May 11, 2012): …
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