Senior Citizens Face Poverty as Obama Wants to Cut Social Security
We have seen what happens when we abandon elderly people who worked hard their whole lives but can’t physically do it anymore. The time was that senior citizens were more likely to be poor than any other Americans. The poverty rate among seniors plunged thanks to Social Security, and they are now guaranteed at least some medical treatment through Medicare. Evidence that Social Security isn’t a windfall: the amount of each recipient’s benefits depends on how much she earned when she was working and how long she worked...Read More
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