Rally decries Social Security benefit cuts
It was a spirited demonstration over an arcane issue that drew a small audience to an incongruous place, but it had a certain Vermont-style gravitas about it: Both of the state’s U.S. senators showed up to voice their support. The issue was President Barack Obama’s proposal to adopt a new way to calculate annual cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security benefits. His proposed standard is called the “chained CPI.” Read more…
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