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For Single Elderly Women, Poverty Increased

Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityNWLC’s analysis of yesterday’s Census data shows poverty rates generally stabilized after three years of increases. But one...

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No, Senator Simpson, We Won't Quit Talking about the Poor and Vulnerable

Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecuritySenator Alan Simpson wants us to shut up. The Huffington Post reported Simpson's comments at a recent event sponsored by "Face the...

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Five Things to Know About the Stealth Cuts to Social Security That Policy...

Posted by: Katherine Gallagher Robbins, Senior Policy AnalystPolicy makers have been talking about deficit reduction for months and one proposal keeps cropping up - changing the way that the...

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$19 a Month to Keep Up with the Cost of Living Doesn’t Sound Too High to Us

Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityThe Social Security Administration just made its annual announcement of what the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for Social...

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After 40 Years, Time to Modernize SSI

Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityThis week is the 40th anniversary of the Supplemental Security Income program, SSI. We celebrate SSI’s vital role in providing...

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Let’s Talk Turkey: Busting Myths on Taxes, Social Security, and Medicaid in...

Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic Security Posted by: Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive RightsWhether served as a side dish or not, politics always...

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Living to 100 Would Be A Little Harder With Stealth Cuts to Social Security,...

Posted by: Abby Lane, Fellow Posted by: Katherine Gallagher Robbins, Senior Policy AnalystWhat does it mean to live to 100? People turning 100 in 2012 have witnessed a lot of amazing events. Four...

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Here's an Idea: Instead of Cutting Women's Social Security Benefits, Let's...

Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityNo, the threat to women’s Social Security benefits from the chained CPI hasn’t gone away. After the House and Senate finish voting...

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Typical Single Elderly Woman’s Social Security Benefit Won’t Fully Recover...

Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityAs expected, President Obama’s FY 14 budget includes a proposal to use the “chained Consumer Price Index” – a slower-growing...

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Trustees’ Report Shows that Social Security Isn’t Broke, Will Be There When...

Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityThe Social Security Trustees released their annual report on Social Security’s finances today. Though you wouldn’t know it from...

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Seven Reasons Why the Senate’s Labor-HHS-Education Funding Bill Has Us Cheering

Posted by: Ellie Klein, InternThe Senate Subcommittee on Appropriations for Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies just approved a funding plan for those agencies in...

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Why the Chained CPI is Harmful to the Most Vulnerable Americans

Posted by: Yiyang Wang, Online Outreach InternThis week the U.S. House Committee on the Budget held a hearing on the progress of the War on Poverty. While poverty remains painfully high as the United...

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Last Week, Chained CPI—This Week, Raising the Retirement Age and More

Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityIt’s August in Washington, DC and Congress is out of town—but the House Ways and Means Committee wants to know what you think...

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Who Thinks a 1.5 Percent Cost-of-Living Adjustment Is Too Much?

Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityThe Social Security Administration today announced the cost-of-living adjustment for 2014: beginning in January 2014, benefits...

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5 Public Programs That Lift Millions of Women and Children Out of Poverty

Posted by: Lauren Frohlich, FellowIn 2012, Social Security kept 12.1 million women and 1 million children out of poverty.This new statistic can be calculated based on data released today by the Census...

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Poverty Among Seniors Is Far Worse than First Appears

Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityA disturbing finding from today’s Census Bureau report on poverty using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM):  the rates of...

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The President’s To Do List

Posted by: Amy Qualliotine, Outreach ManagerI believe that To Do lists are an art form. There’s nothing more beautiful than a list of things you need to get done with every single item crossed off of...

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Five Reasons to Celebrate Social Security's 79th Birthday

Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityOn August 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. As he said at the time, he was just laying the...

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Whose Poverty Rate Increased Last Year? Older Women's

Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityAs we reported, today’s poverty numbers show no improvement in the poverty rate for women overall. Hispanic women saw their...

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Without the Safety Net, Millions More Would Have Lived in Poverty in 2013

Posted by: Julie Vogtman, Senior CounselI have good news and bad news. I’m the type who always wants to hear the bad news first, so here it is: newly released Census Bureau data show that more than 45...

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5 Public Programs that Lifted Millions of Women and Children Out of Poverty...

Posted by: Anne Morrison, FellowIn 2013, Social Security kept 12.0 million women and 1.2 million children out of poverty.This new statistic can be calculated based on data released today by the Census...

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The Phony Crisis in Social Security Disability Insurance — And Other Things...

Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecuritySome lawmakers are saying that Social Security is facing a crisis. The Senate Budget Committee recently held a hearing on “The...

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Our One Social Security System is Still Going Strong

Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityThe Social Security Trustees released its annual report on Social Security’s finances today.  Because Social Security is...

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Happy 80th Birthday, Social Security

Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic SecurityIt was eighty years ago today that President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. But it’s more than its age that...

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5 Things Census Data Tell Us About Elderly Poverty

Posted by: Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic Security1. Poverty among the elderly is worse than you may think.Under the Census Bureau’s updated and more comprehensive supplemental...

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