On AlterNet: social security
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "social security"
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Election 2008. October 8, 2008.
The moral of the story is, if you've got a problem, John McCain has a table.
Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. August 14, 2008.
It's ok, this video is only on the internets so McCain will probably never see it.
Natasha Chart, MyDD.com AlterNet: PEEK. August 7, 2008.
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security ... you would not hear of that party again in our ... history." -Eisenhower
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. August 5, 2008.
McCain favors ... well, he's hard to pin down. Obama's being cagey, too.
Nicholas von Hoffman, The Nation. July 25, 2008.
People are discovering they have been forced into a system in which others have gambled with their retirement savings and lost it.
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. July 17, 2008.
The Beltway press has become dysfunctional, failing to see news when it happens and hyping non-stories that require no real reporting.
Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks AlterNet: Video. July 11, 2008.
Not in an I-want-to-make-it- better way, but more in a I-get-this-about-as-much-as-I-get- the-internet way.
Heidi Hartmann, The Women's Media Center. June 19, 2008.
In general, women need to stretch their resources to accommodate more mouths to feed and more years to live than men.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. May 13, 2008.
Tough-minded immigration policies keep backfiring, and the debate over them obscures the question of what really works and what doesn't.
AlterNetMay 10, 2008.
The Social Security Administration doesn't have the capacity or accuracy to check 130 million workers' records.
ImmPolitic AlterNet: ImmigrationMay 7, 2008.
Much easier to pound one's chest over immigration than it is to come up with serious solutions.
John Miller, Dollars and Sense. April 24, 2008.
Lifting the cap on Social Security taxes would in no way increase the burden on middle-income families.
Howard Zinn, The Nation. March 31, 2008.
In today's climate of uncontrolled greed, it seems like a no-brainer to channel one of the most innovative programs in US history.
Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet. November 14, 2007.
The right has created powerful and lasting myths about the state of the program's finances.
Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. October 16, 2007.
The granny bashers, intent on privatizing Social Security, routinely play fast and loose with the facts.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. September 25, 2007.
Naomi Klein goes head to head with Alan Greenspan on the Iraq war, Bush's tax cuts, economic populism, crony capitalism and more.
Steve Benen, AlterNet: PEEK. September 7, 2007.
Steve Benen: Thompson officially enters the race and immediately starts acting like an idiot.
