As word spreads that President Obama’s budget proposal will call for Social Security and Medicare benefit cuts, other voices are calling for increasing the successful programs instead as the medicine struggling families and a weak economy need.
A report for the New America Foundation highlights the crisis in retirement security and proposes expanding Social Security.
What do workers at Amazon.com and the brutal existence of the Joads in the Depression-era “Grapes of Wrath” have in common? Writing at Bloomberg, columnist and MSNBC commentator Ezra Klein makes the connection . Read it here .
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) claims with a straight face that his so-called “budget repair” bill does not take away collective bargaining rights for public workers. Maybe he hasn’t read his own bill, because if had and still made that claim, he would be lying. My guess is he has read the bill.
It’s been four years since low-wage workers got a raise. Sign the petition to tell Congress it’s time to raise the minimum wage.
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