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…
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…
Text of the letter from Republican House Speaker John Boehner to President Barack Obama outlining a counter-offer to avert the fiscal cliff on Dec. 3, 2012:
Republican lawmakers are insisting on serious cuts to entitlement programs, including raising the Medicare eligibility age and slowing Social Security’s cost-of-living (COLA) increases, in order to reach a…
Nearly 62 million seniors and disabled Americans will receive a 1.7% increase in their Social Security benefits next year but the cost-of-living adjustment may not keep up with…
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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