Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.
Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.
Social Security is something that we need to deal with, because people who are working today, who will retire in the future, people who are retired today, they have a right - and it's part of the compact that they can depend on their benefits. We sho...
Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.
Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.
Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or b...
The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.
The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.
We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.
Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.
The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class securit...
I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.
I support voluntary personal retirement accounts for Social Security. It should be people's free choice.
Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.
For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.
The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.
In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private account...
The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.
With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate.
Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.
