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A Breakdown of How Your Social Security Tax Dollars Are Spent
There are few issues that are more polarizing for Americans than Social Security. Social Security is designed to be a program that protects lower-income retirees, as well as family members of deceased workers and the disabled, from financial hardship. However, Social…
Senate Prepares to Approve Surgeon General Nomination; Groups Offer Medicare Suggestions
The Senate, after passing the fiscal 2015 omnibus funding bill on Saturday, does not want to leave too quickly. A few items remain on the agenda over the next two days. Today, senators will vote to confirm the nomination of…
Special Ed, Disability Programs Unscathed In Budget Deal
A spending plan making its way through Congress is a win for people with disabilities, advocates say, more for what it doesn’t do than what it does Most federal programs supporting people with disabilities will maintain level funding under the $1.1…
President’s push to cover America’s uninsured faces big test today.
President Barack Obama’s push to cover America’s uninsured faces another big test today. This time, it’s not only how the website functions, but how well the program itself works for millions who are starting to count on it. Midnight today, Pacific…
Retiring congressmen, senators: What color is their parachute?
Free health care for life? Nope. But most of the congressmen and senators from Iowa and Nebraska stepping down this election cycle will walk away with pretty solid pensions — some greater than others, based upon their years of service and when…
Reed reveals 2015 agenda
Even members of Congress have New Year’s resolutions, some want to lose weight, others to be better people, but Congressman Tom Reed (R-Corning) is aiming to tackle Social Security reform. On Monday, Reed announced that he was chosen to serve…
Senate averts shutdown fears; fights over nominees
Their power ebbing, Senate Democrats launched a last-minute drive Saturday to confirm roughly 20 of President Barack Obama’s nominees, and several Republicans blamed tea party-backed Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for creating an opening for the outgoing majority party to exploit. Lawmakers…
To get a bigger bang for your Social Security buck, just wait
For many millions of people, Social Security benefits will be their only source of income after they stop working. And with the inexorable decline of private defined-benefit pensions in America, Social Security’s guaranteed income will only become more important in…
Is the US headed for a Humpty Dumpty fall?
As a nation we just reached another alarming milestone, that being amassing $18 trillion of national debt. Most American’s cannot grasp the magnitude of 18 trillion, so maybe this illustration will help. If we spent a million dollars a day,…
Hatch, Lee in thick of Senate commotion
Their power ebbing, Senate Democrats launched a last-minute drive Saturday to confirm roughly 20 of President Barack Obama’s nominees, and several Republicans blamed tea partyer Ted Cruz for creating an opening for the outgoing majority party to exploit. The weekend…