Hands Off Social Security
150 student leaders weigh in on Social Security
May 20, 2005Determined to have their voices heard, 150 student government presidents signed a nonpartisan letter calling on Congress and the White House to protect Social Security. Representing hundreds of thousands of college students from all 50 states,...
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Social Security and the N.Y. Times
May 20, 2005Most Americans do not read The New York Times. But ideas expressed by its columnists make their way into mainstream discussions. Recently, two columnists weighed in with arguments related to Social Security.
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Grassroots defense of Social Security deepens
May 13, 2005Bush got a rocky welcome to Denver, March 21, in the 17th stop on his 60-city, election-style campaign to sell the privatization of Social Security. “We’re here to tell him to go back home!” Colorado AFL-CIO...
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Social Security rooted in grassroots struggle
May 13, 2005Three years before President Franklin Roosevelt enacted Social Security, the Communist Party issued a pamphlet saying: “Social insurance is a system of government support to give workers financial assistance, thus affording them a measure of security...
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Dont pick our pockets to line your own: Nationwide Social Security actions hit Schwab investment
May 13, 2005CHICAGO — “Privatizing Social Security may be good business for Charles Schwab, but it’s a bad deal for working Americans,” Chicago Federation of Labor President Dennis Gannon told the multiracial and multigenerational crowd of 300 that...
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