“Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.” NeedsImportantSocialCommunitySecurityCitizensWorkersSocial SecurityRetiredDisabledHispanicSecurity Systems Author:Grace Napolitano
“To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.” SocialCausesSecurityAccountsInvestmentWorkersUncertaintyInvestorsEarningSocial SecurityErodeSecurity Systems Author:Grace Napolitano
“To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.” ShouldFirstsSocialSecurityBenefitsGainsIncreaseImpactWorkersIncomeConsumersTypicalSocial SecurityInflationAmerican Workers Author:Steven Rattner
“I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security.” ShouldBelieveLongI BelieveSocialTermConditionsSecurityAccountsWorkersLong TermSocial SecurityDeficitReduction Author:Cliff Stearns
“When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.” ThinkingLongRunningJobsLeftUnitedQualitySecurityMembersWorkersAgendasLong RunsPublic Service Author:Andy Stern
“Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those who can least protect themselves. It strikes hardest those millions of our citizens whose incomes do not quickly rise with the cost of living. When prices soar, the pensioner and the widow see their security undermined, the man of thrift sees his savings melt away; the white collar worker, the minister, and the teacher see their standards of living dragged down.” MenGivingWhitePoorDealsMillionsRichTeacherSecurityHe ManCitizensCostProtectStandardsWorkersStrikesIncomeHardestSavingMinistersSoarInflationSavingsHoodWidowsCollarsRobinsStandards Of LivingThriftRobin HoodWhite CollarCost Of Living Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality.” ChildrenGovernmentSchoolSocialInterestingSecurityTelevisionEmotionalPersonalityIntellectualWorkersRadioVariousUnemploymentSocial SecurityAssuredSurvivingStimulusSustainingDiversionSchool EducationHealth Services Book:The Pentagon of Power Source: The Pentagon of Power
“The reason Social Security is in big trouble is we don't have enough workers to support the retirees. Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion.” PeopleWellsEndsReasonEnoughBigsTodayAmericaYoungThreeSocialSupportTroubleSecurityThirdsWorkersAbortionPregnancySocial SecurityAmerica Today Author:Rick Santorum
“Vote to stand tall against terrorists ; receive Social Security privatization . Vote to strike a blow against elitism; receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our lifetimes , in which workers have been stripped of power and CEOs are rewarded in a manner beyond imagining.” Has BeensOrderSocialWealthSecurityVoteLifetimeWorkersBlowStrikesTerroristTallCeoSocial SecuritySocial OrderElitismPrivatization Book:What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America Source: What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
“The whole time I was a union leader, we had to put up with John Howard and Tony Abbott attacking workers' conditions. I'm proud of being a moderate trade union official, working co-operatively between employees and employers. I'm interested in better wages for workers, better safety, job security, and, profitable companies, because I understand that if you get co-operation in the workplace, everyone wins.” IfsWholeJobsWinningCompanyLeaderConditionsSecurityProudSafetyTradeUnionsWorkersOperationsOfficialsEmployeeWorkplaceWagesModeratesEmployersAttackingProfitableTrade UnionsEmployees And Employers Author:Bill Shorten
“I think it's time we had a President who will provide the only real economic security: good jobs. A President who will provide middle class payroll tax relief to get money in the pockets of workers who will spend it, not more tax giveaways for those at the top to stimulate the economy in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. A President who will index the minimum wage to inflation and raise it from a 30 year low, not increase the tax burden on the middle class and those struggling to join it.” ThinkingYearsRealJobsPresidentClassStruggleEconomyEconomicMiddleSecurityTaxesLowsIncreaseRaisesWorkersBurdenIslandsReliefMiddle ClassPocketsMinimumGood JobInflationMinimum WageGet MoneyPayrollEconomic SecurityPayroll TaxTax BurdenBermudaCayman Islands Author:John F. Kerry
“More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.” SocialSecurityTaxesBenefitsPercentProgramIncreaseWorkersTrendsFewerSocial SecurityExpectancyPayrollLife ExpectancyPayroll TaxLonger Life Author:Alex Tabarrok
“There is a growing sentiment in America that regular saving should be ignored-that the government will take care of people and give them security when they get beyond a certain age or become old and unable to work, but it must be borne in mind that the people who earn and do save, take care of the government! Were it not for the thrifty and the willing workers, the government would be in a bad way.” PeopleWayGivingShouldMindGovernmentWould BeCareAgeAmericaCertainWealthGrowingSecurityWillingWorkersTake CareSavingSentimentsIgnoredThrifty Author:George Matthew Adams
“I have a feeling-as compelling as a religious conviction-that if industry will constantly pass on to the worker and the customer all the savings of labor-saving machinery and invention, rather than siphon them off into the pools of watered securities, it will by that process keep distribution and production in balance and go as far toward Utopia as our poor human natures will go or be driven.” IfsHumansFeelingsProcessReligiousPoorSecurityHuman NatureIndustryBalanceLaborWorkersProductionsConvictionCustomersDrivenInventionSavingPoolCompellingDistributionMachinerySavingsUtopia Author:Samuel B. Pettengill
“The federal government said today they've begun training sessions for airport security workers to provide what they call more customer satisfaction to the travels, they want to make it easier for us. They're instructing security guards to glance at your luggage tags so that they can call you by your first name. Isn't that creepy? The guy touching your wife, calling her by her first name.” WantFirstsSaidGovernmentTodayGuyNamesWifeSecurityEasierCallingTrainingWorkersSatisfactionCustomersTouchingFederal GovernmentGlancesAirportsSessionCreepyTagCustomer SatisfactionLuggageSecurity GuardsAirport Security Author:Jay Leno
“The greatest danger to an adequate old-age security plan is rising prices. A rise of 2% a year in prices would cut the purchasing power of pensions about 45% in 30 years. The greatest danger of rising prices is from wages rising faster than output per man-hour.... Whether the nation succeeds in providing adequate security for retired workers depends in large measure upon the wage policies of trade unions.” MenYearsAgeNationsHoursCuttingPlansSecurityDangerPolicyDependsSucceedTradeUnionsAgingWorkersOld AgeFasterRisingProvidingWagesAdequateRetiredPensionOutputPurchasingTrade UnionsPurchasing PowerRising Prices Author:Sumner Slichter
“Healthy children are more likely to attend school and are better able to learn. Healthy workers are more productive. More productive economies mean greater stability in developing countries and improved security in the West.” MeanChildrenCountryAbleSchoolEconomyGreaterSecurityHealthyWestWorkersDevelopingProductiveStabilityDeveloping CountriesHealthy Children Author:Seth Berkley
“These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure foods and safe drugs, Social Security, Medicare and rules that promote competitive markets over monopolies and cartels.” ChildrenLawSocialSecurityDrugPureSafeLaborSafetyWorkersCivilizedMinimumWagesSocial SecurityMonopolyCompensationMedicareMinimum WageCivilized SocietyMarkersChild LaborCartelsLabor Laws Author:Bill Moyers
“As a foreign worker in Haiti, speaking for myself, speaking for the workers, our organization is about 95 percent Haitian, but even foreign workers driving through, we have had very minimal security issues.” IssuesSecurityPercentOrganizationWorkersDrivingHaitiHaitian Author:Sean Penn
“Anyone believing the TPP is good for Americans take note: The foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based corporations could just as easily challenge any U.S. government regulation they claim unfairly diminishes their profits - say, a regulation protecting American consumers from unsafe products or unhealthy foods, investors from fraudulent securities or predatory lending, workers from unsafe working conditions, taxpayers from another bailout of Wall Street, or the environment from toxic emissions.” BelieveGovernmentChallengesEnvironmentStreetsConditionsSecurityProductsWallClaimsNotesWorkersProfitConsumersCorporationsInvestorsToxicRegulationDiminishTaxpayersUnhealthyEmissionsLendingUnsafeHealthy FoodPredatoryGovernment RegulationBailoutsWorking ConditionsUnhealthy Food Author:Robert Reich
“The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly on "ethnic" voters, whose activism was both hemmed in and rewarded by the Democrats. Southern and Eastern Europeans were included as secondary leaders of the new industrial unions, and as entitled citizens qualified for social security, unemployment compensation, and fair labor standards protections, even as workers of color were largely left out of key areas of the welfare state.” StatesCoursesLeftSocialDealsLeaderSecurityPolicyColorKeysCitizensStandardsAreasFairsLaborUnionsDemocratWorkersProtectionActivismImmigrationWelfareRacistVotersSouthernEntitledUnemploymentEasternSocial SecurityQualifiedCompensationRestrictionLeft OutWelfare StateNew DealDraconian Author:David Roediger
“We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers' compensation. We developed strong unions to negotiate with business owners so workers got an equitable share of the profits.” StrongSocialDemocracyShareSecurityTaxesUnionsWesternWorkersProfitIncomeOwnersContractsTemperSocial SecurityCompensationIncome TaxBusiness OwnersEquitableSocial Contract Author:John Shelby Spong
“I will not cut benefits. I want to enhance benefits for low-income workers and for women who have been disadvantaged by the current Social Security system.” WantHas BeensSocialCuttingSecurityBenefitsLowsWorkersCurrentsIncomeSocial SecurityLow IncomeDisadvantagedSecurity Systems Author:Hillary Clinton
“People expect those in authority to take on big problems and to solve them. We had an opportunity to reform Social Security in a way that would have protected people's benefits and created a solvent system. Younger workers would be confident that the money they were putting into the system would be available to them when they retired. It was a missed opportunity. I regret that.” PeopleWayProblemBigsWould BeOpportunitySocialSecurityRegretAuthorityBenefitsWorkersAvailableSolveReformProtectedSocial SecurityRetiredI RegretBig ProblemsBe ConfidentMissed Opportunity Author:George W. Bush
“If you're a poor worker - this is for new workers coming into the workplace - your benefits will increase at the current rate of increase. If you're a wealthier worker, your benefits would increase at the rate of inflation. And those changes would affect positively the unfunded liabilities inherent in Social Security.” IfsSocialPoorSecurityBenefitsIncreaseWorkersRateCurrentsInherentWorkplaceSocial SecurityInflationPositivelyLiability Author:George W. Bush
“The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that it excluded domestic workers or agricultural workers, you might not see race in it, unless you knew that that covered a huge chunk of African Americans, particularly in the South.” IfsFactsMightWould BeLawSocialRaceSecurityHugeSouthWorkersBeing TrueAfrican AmericanCoveredSocial SecurityExcludedChunks Author:Barack Obama
“In industry, we are now concentrating our best effort in trying to make plants work at a maximum capacity, trying to replace the equipment which is in bad conditions due to lack of spare parts from the U.S.., that we cannot get from the U.S.; to extend our industry later on the basis of our primary resources. And to lessen our dependence on external markets and dedicate our efforts in 1965 to the aspect of security and hygiene of work, to make our plants better for the worker: that the worker may feel really a man there.” MenFeelsTryingMayEffortConditionsSecurityIndustryResourcesCapacityAspectBasesPlantWorkersDuesPrimariesSparesDependenceEquipmentMaximumConcentratingHygieneBest EffortSpare Parts Author:Che Guevara