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Equal Times is focusing on an article published by the Washington Post that Lori Montgomery wrote. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are three separate programs with unique funding, a fact that she fails to mention.
Meanwhile, you could do more to erase Social Security’s shortfall by simply lifting the payroll tax cap. A lot more. According to the Congressional Budget Office, raising the federal retirement age to 70 would solve about half of Social Security funding problem, while lifting the payroll tax cap would solve all of it.
Ezra Klein via Washington Post.
The Washington Post is out with the second in a series of articles pushing the nastiest of myths about Social Security disability benefits and the people who rely on them.
Their latest article, titled “Generations, disabled,” doubles down on seriously flawed reporting that The Post began in March. This time the author, Terrence McCoy, profiles a family in Missouri struggling with poverty and health-related challenges. McCoy takes aim at many aspects of their lives, but the one he reserves the most scorn for—the fact that more than one person in the family receives disability benefits—mirrors the same disability cuts Trump called for in last week’s budget proposal.
via Talk Poverty.
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And, last spring, he had an idea for a project that he calls Personal Histories Photography.
MacInnes paired up his students with seniors living in Clermont Park retirement community and asked them a question.
“The residents and students were asked if they had to leave a burning house and they could only bring one photograph with them, what would it be,“ he said.
The students and seniors then had an interview and a photo session with their chosen picture.
“We photograph each person with their chosen photograph and then recorded them telling us why that photograph was important,” said MacInnes. “We transcribe that and transpose that with the photographs for this exhibition.”
The photos now hang on the walls at the art school. Each senior and student also got a book featuring their stories and their photos.
via 9 News.
An inspiring project that connects the elderly and younger people!
Reporters don’t know what Republican politicians think, they just know what they say. It would be best if the Post tried to restrict itself to reporting on the latter. As far as the substance, the Post is once again trying to push a story with no basis in reality that implies future generations will be worse off than today’s workers and retirees due to the cost of Social Security and Medicare. To advance this view it uncritically presents the account of Representative David Schweikert, a proponent of privatizing Medicare.
via CEPR.
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Unequal Pay’s Lasting Legacy: Lost Income from Your 1st day at Work until the Day You Die.
Christie’s proposal about taking away Social Security for people who earn above $200,000 a year was close to complete nonsense. There are very few people in this category. While this group does make lots of money, they do not collect much more Social Security than the rest of us. This is because the program has an income cap and a progressive payback structure.
via CEPR.
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- Decades of Bad Social Security & Medicare Proposals Rolled into One – Courtesy of Governor Chris Christie.
- New Jersey Governor Chris Christie deployed all of these time-worn propaganda techniques to unveil his plan to cut $1 trillion in benefits (that’s $1,000,000,000,000) from generations of Americans who will depend on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Follow your dreams, kid.
Loved this when I saw it on Twitter; still loved it when I saw it here.
House Republicans released a proposal Tuesday that would balance the budget in nine years — but only by making large cuts to entitlement programs, including Medicare and Social Security, that President Trump vowed not to touch.
via Washington Post.
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House Budget Proposal Makes GOP Priorities Painfully Clear.
- House Republicans apparently want to have it both ways: swelling the debt by $1.5 trillion with the reckless Trump/GOP tax scheme, then crying that deficits are too large – and insisting that crucial social programs must be cut to close the gap.
President Trump’s proposed fiscal 2019 Social Security Administration (SSA) budget would cut staffing, a recipe for long waits in agency offices and on the telephone for those trying to navigate the often-difficult world of old-age, disability, survivor and Medicare benefits. Retirement and survivor benefits would not be hit.
via Washington Post.
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Unfortunately, after years of Congressional cuts to Social Security’s administration, many individuals do not receive the service they have earned and deserve.
Administrative Budget Requests Have Been Cut for Years:
- Social Security’s core operating budget shrank by 11% from 2010 to 2017 in inflation-adjusted terms. This occurred even as 10,000 baby boomers a day reach retirement age.
A bipartisan bill that’s on the Senate floor this week would increase the odds of government funding going to bail out failed banks, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office.
via Washington Post.