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text‘Don’t pick our pockets to line your own’: Nationwide Social Security actions hit Schwab i by PWW (reposted)
CHICAGO — “Privatizing Social Security may be good business for Charles Schwab, but it’s a bad deal for working Americans,” Chicago Federation of Labor President Dennis Gannon told the multiracial and multigenerational crowd of 300 that overflowed the sidewalk in front of the giant investment firm’s office here. “The stock market is a gamble,” Gannon continued, “I’ve got a mother who is 83, a daughter who is 22 and I’m 52. Privatization puts us all in jeopardy.”...
Posted: Tue, Apr 12, 2005 2:50pm PDT
textPrice indexing and Social Security A time bomb by PWW (reposted)
Private accounts have been the center of controversy in the Social Security debate, but the hidden time bomb is Bush’s proposal to change the way retirees’ starting benefits are determined. “Price indexing” is really a cumulative benefit reduction plan which would spell the death of Social Security....
Posted: Fri, Apr 1, 2005 9:17am PST
textCurrent Workers Cannot Count on Retiree Health Benefits by Employee Benefit Research Institute
New Research From EBRI: Current Workers Cannot Count on Retiree Health Benefits...
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2005 11:47am PST
textThe dysfunctional society: US billionaires on the rise—roads, bridges in decay by wsws (reposted)
Two recent reports cast light on the impact of growing social inequality in the US. The first, the annual inventory of the very rich compiled this month by the business magazine Forbes, tracks the wealth of the world’s billionaires, and their increasing numbers in the US. The second is the “report card” issued by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) on the state of the infrastructure in the United States....
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2005 7:14am PST
textGOP Agenda Shreds Disabled Housing by Lynda Carson
The GOP Schemes To Steal Resources From The Disabled & Mentally Ill....
Posted: Sat, Mar 19, 2005 5:23am PST
textMen's Health Network Expresses Concerns Regarding Drug Importation by Men's Health Network
n the wake of a recent report that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seized drugs being imported from abroad intended for American citizens, Men' Health Network would like to reiterate its concern regarding drug importation....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 2:49pm PST
textInternat'l Food Not Bombs Convergence, June in Philly by under the pavement collective
gather for the 25th anniversary of food not bombs at the biotech protests/green and black urban gathering this june in philly!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 9, 2005 1:19pm PST
text National Council on Disability Releases Latest Edition of NCD Bulletin by National Council on Disability
Following is the latest electronic edition of the NCD Bulletin, a monthly publication of the National Council on Disability (NCD)...
Posted: Mon, Mar 7, 2005 8:57pm PST
textSign Petition- Save Housing Assistance Programs by Roll Back The Rents
Sign The Petition To Save Low-Income Housing!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 7, 2005 12:37am PST
textThe Enough-for-All Campaign by fight poverty, not the poor
The neoliberal policy is international and supposedly without alternative. However policy is man-made and therefore can be changed.. Every person has a right to share in the social wealth....
Posted: Fri, Mar 4, 2005 10:57am PST
textTown hall meeting on Social Security: Michigan Democrat seeks to contain popular anger by wsws (reposted)
Throughout the country, Congressmen from both the Republican and Democratic parties are holding “town hall” meetings on the Bush administration’s plans for the introduction of individual private accounts to replace government-guaranteed Social Security pensions. The meetings—even those held by Republican politicians—have generally been an occasion for the venting of popular opposition to the reform of Social Security, the linchpin of the limited welfare system in the United States....
Posted: Sat, Feb 26, 2005 10:25am PST
textSocial Security Calculator- [Click here to see benefits] by Social Security Now!
The Republicans Have Gotten Down & Dirty To Terminate Social Security And Dupe The Young Into Gambling Their Retirement Funds With The Profiteers On Wall Street! Take A Moment & Click On Link Below To See How Privatizing Social Security Would Screw You Out Of Your Determined Retirement Benefits!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 7:29pm PST
textNew Yorkers rally for affordable housing by louis bettencourt
NEW YORK — On Feb. 2 more than 5,000 people took part in a “Housing Here and Now!” rally outside of City Hall. It was the largest show of support for affordable housing the city has seen in decades. Union members and leaders, city residents, religious groups and elected officials came together to demand city leaders enact a five-point program to put an end to New York City’s housing crisis....
Posted: Sun, Feb 13, 2005 12:46pm PST
textThe further hemorrhaging of Detroit—city to shut 34 public schools by wsws (reposted)
Detroit parents, students and teachers reacted with shock and anger to Thursday’s announcement that 34 of the city’s public schools will close their doors this June. More than 10,000 of the district’s 140,000 students will be uprooted and shifted to different schools when the academic year ends and the facilities are shut down....
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 10:31pm PST
textBush budget assailed as ‘war’ on people by PWW (reposted)
WASHINGTON — Outraged protests greeted President George W. Bush’s $2.57 trillion budget proposal, with many calling it a fraudulent, radical plan to starve spending on human needs while lavishing billions on the “greedy.”...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 9:55pm PST
textBTL:Opponents Prepare to Challenge Bush Budget Cuts and Drive to... by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
...Privatize Social Security ~ Interview with Roger Hickey, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 5:08am PST
textPoor, distraught and desperate: Oregon man threatens suicide on floor of state Senate by wsws (reposted)
As he was escorted handcuffed down the capitol steps, Owens turned to reporters and TV cameras. “I’m disabled!” he screamed. “I need housing! That’s all!”...
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 10:55pm PST
textMedical bills cause more than half of US personal bankruptcies by wsws (reposted)
Debt due to medical bills is the largest single cause of personal bankruptcies in the United States, a newly published study on the Health Affairs web site reported. About half of those filing bankruptcy in 2001 did so because of medical bills resulting from illness or injury. What is most unexpected about the data is that most individuals or couples who went bankrupt were not part of the 45 million uninsured. Nearly 76 percent had health insurance at the start of their illness....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 11:56pm PST
textUS budget slashes social spending to pay for war and repression by wsws (reposted)
The budget released by the Bush administration Monday provides for $2.57 trillion in spending, but two thirds of this falls under programs already mandated by Congress, including Social Security, Medicare, unemployment compensation and the payment of interest on the burgeoning national debt. The main focus of the budget document is so-called discretionary spending, which requires annual appropriations by Congress....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 11:55pm PST
textBush’s budget: government by fraud and lies by wsws (reposted)
The most important feature of the new budget released by the Bush administration on Monday is that it is not, in any serious sense of the word, a budget at all. It is a monumental fraud, aimed at concealing fiscal reality and usurping decisions on spending that, under longstanding US constitutional procedures, are reserved to Congress rather than the executive branch....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 11:54pm PST
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