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CHN Social Security Update
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1. Where Does Your Member of Congress Stand on Social Security?
2. The Real Story on African Americans and Social Security
3. Why Social Security is Important to Women 1. Where Does Your Member of Congress Stand on Social Security?
Several organizations have compiled a table illustrating the positions of key members of Congress on Social Security privatization. This list can be accessed here: http://www.chn.org/pdf/socialsecuritytargets.pdf 2. The Real Story on African Americans and Social Security
The President claims that the way to address the fact that African American males have shorter life-expectancies than others is to change Social Security. He has not offered a comprehensive plan to improve access to health care or sick leave or other policies that could eliminate racial disparities in life-expectacies. President Bush is wrong that his Social Security proposal would be a better deal for African Americans. Here's the real story: NY Times Op-Ed: President Bush Making Misleading Claims About Social Security and African Americans
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/28/opinion/28krugman.html?oref=login&hp Prospect: Social Security Today is Good Deal for African Americans, Bush's Plan is Not
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=9110 The Black Commentator: Destruction of Social Security Would Harm Black Communities
http://www.blackcommentator.com/118/118_cover_rockeymoore.html 3. Why Social Security is Important to Women
The Institute for Women's Policy Research has a new website detailing how Social Security privatization could disproportionately harm women, http://womenandsocialsecurity.org . It explains, for example, that the following types of benefits are provided by Social Security but not any of the privatization plans being proposed:
- Redistribution of benefits towards lower earners;
- Generous survivor benefits, especially for those who are widowed at a young age;
- Benefits that are fully protected from inflation; and Spousal benefits based on the husband's full earnings record, regardless of the length of the marriage.
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