Wed 20 Nov 2013
Social Security Under Attack Elizabeth Warren on Social Security: “It’s Values, Not Math”
Posted by k under Civil Liberties , Democracy , FinanceNo Comments
I spent most of my career studying the economic pressures on middle class families – families who worked hard, who played by the rules, but who still found themselves hanging on by their fingernails. Starting in the 1970s, even as workers became more productive, their wages flattened out, while core expenses, things like housing and health care and sending a kid to college, just kept going up. (more…)