Social Security

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16	February 2007 Readings/Article Personal account SEE ALSO: Age discrimination in employment; Franklin County; Social Security; Bowers, Timothy; Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Robbery) PDF IMAGES
16	November 2005 Readings/Article Fireside cheat By Leah Maloy SEE ALSO: Bush, George W.; Political ethics; Social Security; Views on Social Security; Young adults PDF IMAGES
39-46	June 2005 Article The iceberg cometh: Can a nation of spenders be saved? By Paul R. Krugman, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Peter G. Peterson SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Budget deficits; Financial crises; International trade; 2001-; Saving and investment; Social Security PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
35-40	April 2005 Article The $4.7 trillion pyramid: Why Social Security won't be enough to save Wall Street By Michael Hudson SEE ALSO: 2001-; Pensions; Ponzi schemes; Social Security; Stock exchanges; Wall Street PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
31-38	January 2002 Article The trillion-dollar hustle: Hello Wall Street, goodbye social security By Thomas Frank SEE ALSO: Capitalists and financiers; 2001-; Privatization; Social Security; Social security taxes; Working class PDF IMAGES
26-29	June 1998 Readings/Article The sham of saving social security first By Robert B. Reich SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Debts, Public; 1993-; Social Security PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 8-10	October 1982 The easy chair/Article The grandfather clause society: As opportunities narrow, the spirit of “I got here first” is sweeping the country By Michael E. Kinsley SEE ALSO: 1981-1989; Real property tax; Social Security PDF IMAGES
22-27	June 1974 Article The cruelest tax By Roger LeRoy Miller SEE ALSO: Pensions; Social Security; Social security taxes PDF IMAGES
112-115	November 1973 Commentary/Article A public charge charges the public By Bridget Saxon SEE ALSO: Handicapped; Social Security; Taxation; Welfare recipients PDF IMAGES
14-24	February 1962 The editor's easy chair/Article The Kennedy era: Stage two By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Agricultural subsidies; Career as U.S. president; Federal aid to education; Kennedy, John F.; 1961-1963; 1961-1971; Social Security PDF IMAGES
12-25	October 1961 The easy chair/Article “Private vs. public”: Could Kenneth Galbraith be wrong? By Henry Christopher Wallich SEE ALSO: Consumption (Economics); Government spending policy; Medical care, Cost of; Mixed economy; 1961-1971; Social Security PDF IMAGES
92-94	April 1952 Article Why retire at sixty-five? By Henry S. Curtis SEE ALSO: Aged; Old age pensions; Social Security PDF IMAGES
72-77	December 1949 Article Social security poor By C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley) Grattan SEE ALSO: Employee fringe benefits; Social Security; Trade-unions PDF IMAGES
72-74	June 1943 Article A way to head off inflation: Taxation, bonds, and . . . Social Security now! By Kurt Solmssen SEE ALSO: Anti-inflationary policies; Social Security PDF IMAGES
32-39	June 1940 Article Social Security—where are we now? By Abraham Epstein SEE ALSO: Old age pensions; Social Security; United States. Social Security Act PDF IMAGES
582	April 1939 Personal and otherwise/Article Economic Anthony Comstock SEE ALSO: Prices; Social Security PDF IMAGES
182-192	July 1937 Article Killing old age security with kindness By Abraham Epstein SEE ALSO: Social Security PDF IMAGES
55-66	December 1935 Article Our social insecurity act By Abraham Epstein SEE ALSO: Social Security; United States. Social Security Act PDF IMAGES
210-219	July 1915 Article Compensation and business ethics By Robert W. (Robert Walter) Bruère SEE ALSO: Business ethics; Industrial relations; Social Security; Workers' compensation PDF IMAGES

Jul 2005	Estimated amount that illegal immigrants pay into Social Security each year: $6,400,000,000	Harper's Index Source: Center for Immigration Studies (Washington)
Mar 2005	Percentage of Social Security contributions that go toward administrative costs: 0.6	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Mar 2005	Year that the Social Security trustees in 1994 projected the program would no longer be able to pay out full benefits: 2029	Harper's Index Source: Social Security Administration (Washington)
Mar 2005	Amount to which a San Diego defense analyst’s payments to Social Security had appreciated when he retired in 1994: $261,372	Harper's Index Source: Stanley Logue (San Diego)
Jun 2004	Amount by which total Social Security contributions since 1983 exceed total benefit payments since then : $999,059,000,000	Harper's Index Source: Social Security Administration (Baltimore)/Harper's research
Apr 1999	Percentage of spending last year on the U.S. Social Security system that did: 1	Harper's Index Source: Social Security Administration (Baltimore)
Apr 1999	Factor by which U.S. stock market growth must exceed GDP growth for Social Security stock investment to work: 5	Harper's Index Source: Left Business Observer (N.Y.C.)
Oct 1998	Number of calls made last year to the Social Security Administration's fraud hotline: 75,000	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Jul 1998	Percentage of Americans who say they are confident that Social Security will provide them with “significant” income: 26	Harper's Index Source: Richard Day Research for Fidelity Investments (Boston)

April 22, 2006	A Florida man was arrested for keeping his mother at home for months after she died so that he could keep cashing her Social Security checks.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Local6.com
May 24, 2005	In Greece, New York, Bush discussed his plan for Social Security. “You got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in,” he explained, “to kind of catapult the propaganda.”	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: WhiteHouse.gov
March 24, 2005	Less than half of Americans supported the President's plan for Social Security.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: AP
March 12, 2005	President George W. Bush reaffirmed his vow to fix Social Security. “You will get your checks,” he said.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: WhiteHouse.gov
March 6, 2005	A poll found that most Americans are against Social Security reform.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Bloomberg
February 28, 2005	USA Next, a group with ties to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, attacked the AARP for its position against Social Security reform.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Newsweek
February 13, 2005	The Bush Administration continued to promote its plan to gut Social Security.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: ABC News
February 2, 2005	George Bush called Social Security "a symbol of the trust between generations," then discussed proposals for the reduction of its benefits and an increase in the retirement age.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: The New York Times
January 28, 2005	Social Security Administration workers testified that they had been ordered "to promote the idea that Social Security is in crisis and that Social Security privatization is the answer."	Weekly Review By Arno Kopecky Source: Reuters
December 21, 2004	Wall Street firms were quietly preparing for the privatization of Social Security.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: New York Timesimes
September 3, 2004	President Bush again called for the privatization of Social Security.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: USA Today
March 2, 2004	Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, suggested cutting Social Security and Medicare to help pay for President Bush's massive tax cuts for the rich.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times

24	July 1984 Readings/Cartoon Yuppie lottery ticket SEE ALSO: Social Security; Yuppies PDF IMAGES

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