North Carolina retirees held a press conference in Raleigh to demand congressional candidates pledge to strengthen Social Security by making sure wealthy taxpayers pay their fair share.
We need your help asking members of the North Carolina Congressional Delegation to sign onto to a letter demanding answers from SSA on their plans to end face-to-face customer service.
Join us this Thursday, February 19th at 9 AM at the Raleigh AFL-CIO headquarters for a forum and discussion on what real retirement security means to you and how you can help to make sure the President and the White House protect Social Security and Medicare. Free breakfast will be provided!
Social Security, arguably the most successful government program ever, turned 79 years old (young?) on August 14th.
Those who want to take away our safety nets don’t want you to see the video.
People in over 40 cities across the country will form a “Human Chain Against the Chained CPI”.
AFGE Local 3509, which represents workers in the SSA, is asking for solidarity support to save services at Social Security Administration at two rallies in Southeastern NC on Wednesday, December 5.
After the election, Congress must decide between tax cuts for the richest 2% or jobs and economic security for the rest of us. We need to act now to make sure our members of Congress understand this – it is time for those whom America has done so right by to start doing right by America.
On Friday, July 30, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Social Security Act of 1965, creating Medicare and Medicaid. Forty-seven years later, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are still working for the people of North Carolina.
Predictable ‘sky is falling’ warnings from the right-wing that accompany these reports are part of a larger agenda to scare seniors and push extreme changes.
On April 28, join Congressman Brad Miller and others in Raleigh who are standing up against these attacks. We will demand: “Don’t Make Us Work ‘Til We Die. Hands off Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.”
According to a new report by media watchdog Media Matters (mediamatters.org), the media is “chronically wrong” in its reporting on Social Security and our country’s budget deficits – creating a false impression of crisis where the facts suggest no such thing.
Rep. Paul Ryan authored the Republican budget road map, which the Chief Actuary of Social Security said would drastically cut benefits. Election gives voters a choice on program’s future If Republicans take control of the U.S. House of Representatives after the Nov. 2 election, Paul Ryan (R-WI) is positioned to become Chairman of the House […]
