Don’t You DARE Cut the Social Safety Net!
This is a Real Progressives interview on defending and expanding safety net programs, Medicare for All, negotiating with the Republicans in a way that always produces measurable and visible gains, […]
Social Security
The Defense Department is Running Out of Money Unless We Do Something
Everyday you hear or read on some network or web site a claim that Social Security and Medicare are running out of money, followed by an appeal to raise taxes, […]
President-elect Donald Trump Doesn’t Have to Compromise with Paul Ryan on Entitlements
During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to save Social Security and to protect Medicare. But since he made those commitments he seems to have gotten much closer to Paul […]
Yes We Can Pay for Increasing Social Security Benefits
Or, I might add, for any other obligation the Federal government cares to honor. Some time ago, in the pages of USA Today, Duncan Black, better known to some as […]