by Emily Foster | Oct 30, 2013 | Economy, Retirement Security
On Wednesday, a panel discussion and press conference were held to examine Social Security’s role in the retirement income crisis. Representatives from groups such as AARP, the Economic Policy Institute, the Alliance for Retired Americans, and others joined with...
by Digby | Oct 28, 2013 | Economy, Health, Retirement Security, The Sequester
We more or less knew about this already, but this is another version: At the end of a long White House meeting between Senate Republicans and President Barack Obama during the government shutdown, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) threw out a question: Would the president...
by Bill Scher | Oct 23, 2013 | Health, Retirement Security
Over at The Week I offered up 5 Other Botched Rollouts of Government Programs" in order to bring a little historical perspective to the current pile-on over the HealthCare.gov bugs. The common thread of all the programs I covered is: stuff gets fixed, people move on....
by Digby | Oct 22, 2013 | Health, Retirement Security, This Is The GOP
Ruth Marcus fills us in on what constitutes "reasonable" now that the Republicans have proven themselves asses with their government shutdown. And, you guessed it, it's time for Democrats to compromise and agree to cut "entitlements" in exchange for sequestration...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 21, 2013 | Retirement Security
The right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council has jumped into the conservative effort to dismantle public pension systems in a big way, making it one of its top 2014 legislative priorities, a public pension advocacy group has warned. The National Public Pension...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 20, 2013 | Retirement Security
As the Bob Dylan song says: “Things should start to get interesting right about now.” You may think they’re already interesting – what with government closings, threats of a debt default, and extremist rhetoric under the Capitol Dome – but chances are we ain’t seen...
