by Mike Hall, Jul 15, 2010
Seventy-five years ago this August, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Social Security into law. Today, the nation’s most successful safety net, a program that has provided retirement security and kept hundreds of millions of seniors out of poverty, is under attack.
Politicians like House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) want to raise the retirement age to 70, and leading members of the federal budget deficit commission are trial-ballooning benefit cuts
