Social Security

Attacks on Social Security mean growing poverty for retirees, elderly

The Obama administration is proposing Social Security cuts totaling more than $127 billion over the next decade. Congress and politicians…

May 2, 2013

Here’s how sequester inflicts pain on working class

It is becoming clear that the highly touted and publicized “sequester” on spending imposed by the federal government is going…

April 29, 2013

Newark, N.J., protest denounces cuts in Social Security

The community group, People’s Organization for Progress, held a rally on April 16 in Newark, N.J., against cuts in Social…

April 26, 2013

Social Security belongs to the workers

What will happen to our Social Security benefits? This question is being asked by the program’s 56 million recipients in response…

April 19, 2013

Why same-sex marriage matters

When the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on same-sex marriage over two days in late March, it signaled how far…

April 2, 2013

Stop the eviction of S. Baxter Jones, disabled former school teacher

March 14 — Detroit Eviction Defense and the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shutoffs released the…

March 14, 2013

Federal workers protest austerity, say no to ‘sequestration’

Washington, D.C. — Some 1,500 federal employees protested near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., demanding that Congress stop the federal…

February 25, 2013

Austerity can’t solve crises of capitalism

Millions of workers across the United States received a rude and unpleasant jolt this January when they discovered that their…

February 8, 2013

Another Wall Street agent named for Treasury head

When President Barack Obama nominated Jack Lew to be his new secretary of the Treasury, the corporate press seemed most…

January 15, 2013

Hoax of the ‘fiscal cliff’: How Pentagon feasts while jobless crisis drains budget

On the day that the country was supposed to fall over the “fiscal cliff,” Congress finally voted for a bill…

January 7, 2013