The executive director of Ethos, an aging services access point, discusses why it's important to fully fund Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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Friday, November 11, 2011
Dale Mitchell wrote this article and is the executive director of Ethos, which funds the AgeWest West Roxbury program. More than 3,000 elderly and disabled individuals converged on the Wang Center in Boston on Wednesday, November 9 to stage a mass protest against proposed cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Sponsored by Mass Senior Action, AARP, Mass Home Care and several dozen elderly rights and labor groups, the rally literally sent a “big message” to one of the members of the Congressional “Super Committee” that is tasked with developing specific proposals to cut the federal deficit. Seniors took a large envelope stuffed with postcards from elders to the Boston office of U.S. Senator John Kerry, the only New England lawmaker…
Rally fills Wang Theater.
- GOVERNMENT
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
A constellation of advocacy groups gathered in downtown Boston today to tell Senators John Kerry and Scott Brown that they don't want to see any cuts to Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. For more photos and an article click here.
Thousands of residents from all around Massachusetts voiced their concerns about federal cuts followed by a rolling rally to the offices of US Senators Brown and Kerry.
The Wang Center was packed with Massachusetts residents rallying to stop any federal cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid on Wednesday. More than 30 unions and members of senior organizations including AARP, the City of Boston's Elderly Commission, Ethos, and Agewell West Roxbury, constantly rose to their feet with signs calling for no cuts to the vital national medical programs. Many supporters were from out of state, too, from New York, New Hampshire and Maine. After the Wang Rally, the protesters were going to be in a 40+ bus caravan past the offices of US Senators Scott Brown and John Kerry's. Several speakers encouraged residents to contact Brown and Kerry to let them know to stop federal cuts to those programs. Speakers …
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Carly EngageAmerica
12:38 pm on Monday, November 14, 2011
There are a number of options for making Social Security a sustainable program and for reducing the deficit. Changing the benefit formula for SS would essentially eliminate the long-run funding gap and require no additional solvency tax. It also would produce the most dramatic reduction in spending on benefits, equal to 23% of long-run spending under the current benefit formula. In addition, it … more ›