Social Security Needs to Be Stabilized for Future
Special to Roll Call
Social Security has revolutionized how America’s workers prepare for their retirement. It operates as both retirement security and social insurance, offering a lifetime, inflation-protected benefit for senior citizens, disabled workers and widows. It has saved millions from poverty, reducing the number of seniors living at or below the poverty line from 50 percent to less than 10 percent today. Since its inception in 1935, this New Deal has been a good deal for hundreds of millions of Americans.
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Schumer Advocates for Many on Panel
Nov. 16, 12 a.m.
As Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Johnson once said of the Joint Economic Committee, “It’s as useless as tits on a bull.” But as that panel’s chairman during the 110th Congress, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) seized the opportunity to elevate the traditionally low-profile post to the forefront of shaping policy. Read Full Article
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