#social security

In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

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On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

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Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#american #demographics #designed #different #different set

I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone. ↗

— William Weld

#approach #country #democrats #i #security

All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#into #pay #representatives #security #senate

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense! ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#country #depths #enactment #gamble #going

We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security. ↗

— James Hillman

#air #another #back #bag #buy

The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#debt #dollars #economic #economic security #new

If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#clinton #continuing #country #figuring #go

Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets. ↗

— Max Baucus

#folks #out #pockets #privatizing #security