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Top Obama Economic Aide: Social Security Reform Not A Part Of Discussion On Fiscal Future
By Sam Stein for Huffington Post –
Lost amid the budget battles in Congress and the anti-union legislation being considered in several states has been the White House’s...Continue reading.
For Governors, Medicaid Looks Ripe for Slashing
By Kevin Sack for the New York Times –
Hamstrung by federal prohibitions against lowering Medicaid eligibility, governors from both parties are exercising their remaining options...Continue reading.
Deficit reduction push gains steam
By David Rogers for Politico –
A bipartisan effort to resurrect the recommendations of last year’s presidential deficit-reduction commission gained steam Tuesday in the Senate,...Continue reading.
Obama won’t endorse raising retirement age or reducing Social Security benefits
By Lori Montgomery for the Washington Post –
President Obama has decided not to endorse his deficit commission’s recommendation to raise the retirement age, and otherwise...Continue reading.
Medicare Will Enroll 7,000 New Recipients Every Day in 2011
By Pearl Korn for Huffington Post –
On January 1st, while most revelers were still sound asleep and certainly not reading their morning newspapers, a story written by a staff...Continue reading.
Social Security Isn’t the Problem… But Fear for the Future of Medicare
By Saul Friedman for Huffington Post –
Before Gray Matters leaves the dismal subject of President Obama’s misbegotten Frankenstein monster, the deficit reduction commission,...Continue reading.
Victory – Medicare Safe for Now
We did it!
The Deficit Commission did not garner the 14 votes needed to send their proposal to Congress to cut Social Security and Medicare.
With your help, on November 30th, the National...Continue reading.
Majority Of Deficit Commission Endorses Plan; Not Enough To Make It Automatic
From NPR –
As expected, a majority of the bipartisan commission charged with crafting a plan to slash the nation’s soaring budget deficits and national debt, has endorsed...Continue reading.
Will Progressive Democrats in Congress Defend Social Security?
From the Real News Network -
Donna Smith: Social Security benefits are under attack and concern is whether the “man in the White House” will fight back.
More at The Real...Continue reading.
Deficit commission split on plan
From Politico –
Just after the co-chairmen of President Barack Obama’s high-profile deficit commission offered a revised plan for reducing the deficit in an attempt to attract...Continue reading.