Privatizing Survivors, Abandoning Children

Liberty Belle

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Sat Mar-26-05 11:05 PM
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Privatizing Survivors, Abandoning Children

Privatizing Survivors, Abandoning Children
Nancy K. Cauthen
March 25, 2005

Yes, Social Security protect seniors—the same seniors filling the "town hall meetings" on Bush's 60-city tour to talk up his privatization plan. But Social Security was designed to protect children as well, and it does a good job. More than 7 percent of American children benefit from the program, and millions are kept above the poverty line through Social Security. Nancy K. Cauthen of the National Center For Children in Poverty says that Bush's silence on the issue of children and privatization has the potential to do great harm...

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/privatizing_survivors_abandoning_children.php

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Sat Mar-26-05 11:48 PM
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1. Thanks for posting this. I could not have gone to college without the

survivor benefits after my father's premature death.

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Skittles

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Sun Mar-27-05 12:39 AM
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2. I couldn't get a loan for college because my dad made too much money

the fact that he didn't give me any didn't mean anything :(

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Liberty Belle

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Sun Mar-27-05 01:16 AM
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3. My husband and his brothers were in the same situation.

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