by Dave Johnson | Nov 20, 2015 | Blog, Retirement Security
CEOs got an average 3.9 percent pay increase last year. This increase is subsidized by taxpayers because corporations can deduct it as an expense. Meanwhile, America's struggling seniors will receive no cost-of-living allowance (COLA) increase next year because the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 10, 2015 | Retirement Security
When it became clear that Social Security recipients would not receive a cost-of-living adjustment in 2016, Sen. Elizabeth Warren came up with an ingenious remedy, which she introduced in the Senate last week: End the taxpayer subsidy for CEO bonuses and use the...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 3, 2015 | Blog, Retirement Security
Workers received a terrifying message last week, one far more bone-chilling than Halloween ghouls or Freddie Krueger. It was this: Retirement security is only for CEOs, not for workers. Two sources delivered this frightening news. One was a dozen Republican...
by Nancy Altman | Oct 13, 2015 | Retirement Security
The Social Security Administration on Thursday will announce some news that will be distressing to more than one in four households: there will be no Social Security cost of living adjustment ("COLA") for 2016. This is no small matter. The purpose of the annual...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 21, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Retirement Security
Friday, Democratic Presidential candidate Martin O'Malley released a plan, called "Expanding Social Security So Americans Can Retire With Dignity," to boost retirement security. The plan includes boosting Social Security benefits, boosting private savings plans,...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 14, 2015 | Blog, Retirement Security
Some things never change. “The lash of the dictator will be felt," a Republican House member said in 1935 when Social Security was first proposed. “Social Security is the delinquent child of the left,” a Fox News commentator said this week, “that grew up to be an evil...