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A Vision We've Been Waiting For
Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityThank Senator Harkin for Working to Rebuild AmericaThe Rebuild America Act lays out a vision of a better America for women and...
View ArticleThree Things You Should Know About the Future of Social Security
Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityThe Social Security Trustees just released their annual report on Social Security’s finances. It’s provoked a number of...
View ArticleRaising the Minimum Wage Improves Women’s Retirement Security, Too
Posted by: Anna McClure, FellowRaising the minimum wage, as proposed in the Rebuild America Act, would help women in a lot of ways. It would help pull women and their families out of poverty, narrow...
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It's an American Classic - Our Social Security System
Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityWhat's an American classic? Something that stays fresh and wonderful generation after generation. Something that says, "This is...
View ArticleFor Single Elderly Women, Poverty Increased
Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityNWLC’s analysis of yesterday’s Census data shows poverty rates generally stabilized after three years of increases. But one...
View ArticleNo, Senator Simpson, We Won't Quit Talking about the Poor and Vulnerable
Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecuritySenator Alan Simpson wants us to shut up. The Huffington Post reported Simpson's comments at a recent event sponsored by "Face the...
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Five Things to Know About the Stealth Cuts to Social Security That Policy...
Posted by: Katherine Gallagher Robbins, Senior Policy AnalystPolicy makers have been talking about deficit reduction for months and one proposal keeps cropping up - changing the way that the...
View Article$19 a Month to Keep Up with the Cost of Living Doesn’t Sound Too High to Us
Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityThe Social Security Administration just made its annual announcement of what the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for Social...
View ArticleAfter 40 Years, Time to Modernize SSI
Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityThis week is the 40th anniversary of the Supplemental Security Income program, SSI. We celebrate SSI’s vital role in providing...
View ArticleLet’s Talk Turkey: Busting Myths on Taxes, Social Security, and Medicaid in...
Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic Security Posted by: Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive RightsWhether served as a side dish or not, politics always...
View ArticleLiving to 100 Would Be A Little Harder With Stealth Cuts to Social Security,...
Posted by: Abby Lane, Fellow Posted by: Katherine Gallagher Robbins, Senior Policy AnalystWhat does it mean to live to 100? People turning 100 in 2012 have witnessed a lot of amazing events. Four...
View ArticleHere's an Idea: Instead of Cutting Women's Social Security Benefits, Let's...
Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityNo, the threat to women’s Social Security benefits from the chained CPI hasn’t gone away. After the House and Senate finish voting...
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Typical Single Elderly Woman’s Social Security Benefit Won’t Fully Recover...
Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityAs expected, President Obama’s FY 14 budget includes a proposal to use the “chained Consumer Price Index” – a slower-growing...
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Trustees’ Report Shows that Social Security Isn’t Broke, Will Be There When...
Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityThe Social Security Trustees released their annual report on Social Security’s finances today. Though you wouldn’t know it from...
View ArticleSeven Reasons Why the Senate’s Labor-HHS-Education Funding Bill Has Us Cheering
Posted by: Ellie Klein, InternThe Senate Subcommittee on Appropriations for Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies just approved a funding plan for those agencies in...
View ArticleWhy the Chained CPI is Harmful to the Most Vulnerable Americans
Posted by: Yiyang Wang, Online Outreach InternThis week the U.S. House Committee on the Budget held a hearing on the progress of the War on Poverty. While poverty remains painfully high as the United...
View ArticleLast Week, Chained CPI—This Week, Raising the Retirement Age and More
Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityIt’s August in Washington, DC and Congress is out of town—but the House Ways and Means Committee wants to know what you think...
View ArticleWho Thinks a 1.5 Percent Cost-of-Living Adjustment Is Too Much?
Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityThe Social Security Administration today announced the cost-of-living adjustment for 2014: beginning in January 2014, benefits...
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5 Public Programs That Lift Millions of Women and Children Out of Poverty
Posted by: Lauren Frohlich, FellowIn 2012, Social Security kept 12.1 million women and 1 million children out of poverty.This new statistic can be calculated based on data released today by the Census...
View ArticlePoverty Among Seniors Is Far Worse than First Appears
Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityA disturbing finding from today’s Census Bureau report on poverty using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM): the rates of...
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