Category: Chained CPI
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On Social Security, Pollsters Need To Ask The Right Questions
Two polls released in the past 24 hours send decidedly different messages on Social Security. The lesson: Be careful what you ask. One poll released Thursday by Bloomberg seems to show that a significant majority of the public would be willing to see Social Security benefits fall behind increases in the cost of living, which…
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Majority Of House Democrats Say Stop The Benefit Cuts
A majority of House Democrats have signed a House Progressive Caucus letter to President Obama opposing benefit cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. \”We write to affirm our vigorous opposition to cutting Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid benefits in any final bill to replace sequestration,\” the letter, signed by 107 members, says. Sequestration is…
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ALERT: Tell Congress Today: Don\’t Put Chains On My Social Security
Progressive Caucus member Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md., is working to get her colleagues to sign a letter pledging to oppose a \”fiscal cliff\” deal that would include a particularly pernicious cut in Social Security benefits. It is pernicious because if it gets included in a tax-and-spending agreement between the Obama administration and Congress it won\’t…