The excellent historian Lawrence Glickman reminds us that the Republican war on Social Security is by no means just an obsession of President Musk. Republicans have always hated Social Security.
Several months ago, I was asked to write something for a labor group about the connections between organized labor and Social Security. I don't think it was ideological enough for.
For today's podcast, I was happy to speak to two of the long-time fighters to expand Social Security, Nancy Altman and Eric Kingson, about their new book, just out from.
It seems that Pete DuPont was in fact still alive until yesterday. Who knew! Anyway, here's a 1988 DuPont campaign ad pushing an early version of what George W. Bush.
This is the grave of Allen Treadway. For the most part, Allen Treadway is not particularly interesting. He was a long-time congressman from Massachusetts. He was born in 1867 in.
Gregory Wood's Retiring Men examines the intersection between masculinity, work, and retirement in the first six decades of the twentieth century. He argues that the crisis over retirement in a.
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, bringing the modern welfare state to the American people and providing the nation’s poor long-desired old age.
Obama's caving on chained CPI and allowing reductions to Medicare so he can achieve his long-desired grand bargain is a terrible idea, not only on the merits but on the.
