Social Security Links AFL-CIO–Social Security Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Dollars and Sense David Langer’s articles EPI Issue Guide–Social Security National Academy of Social Insurance National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare National Jobs for All Coalition Social Security Page Social Security Advocacy Resources Social Security Media Watch Program-IWPR Social Security Programs Throughout… Read More Education Links
Uncommon Sense #21: (rev.) by Richard B. Du Boff, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Bryn Mawr College By any standard, Social Security is the most successful social program ever enacted in the United States, guaranteeing a measure of basic security for nearly all workers and their families. For nearly two-thirds of the elderly, Social Security provides… Read More “Social Security Is Not in “Crisis”
NJFAC Reprint Series 6 Christian Weller, Economic Policy Institute, March 27, 2002. Article at EPI website.
NJFAC Reprint Series 3 Helen Lachs Ginsburg Adapted from testimony to the New York City Council, Subcommittee on Federal Affairs, © April 29, 1998. Before Social Security was enacted, organized business and Republicans bitterly opposed it. For example, Congressman John Taber, R-NY, said in 1935: “Never in the history of the world has any measure… Read More “Social Security: The Phony Crisis”
Facts about Social Security (PDF) is 1-page summary by June Zaccone, August 2019.
