A Real and Growing Crisis

https://portside.org/2017-12-18/real-and-growing-crisis
Portside Date:
Author: Senator Elizabeth Warren (D - Mass.)
Date of source:
AlterNet

'Social Security isn't the answer to all of our retirement problems. We need to find ways to tackle the financial squeeze that is crushing our families. We need to help families start saving again. We need to make sure that more workers have access to better pensions. But in the meantime, so long as these problems continue to exist and so long as we are in the midst of a real and growing retirement crisis -- a crisis that is shaking the foundations of what was once a vibrant and secure middle class -- the absolute last thing we should be doing is talking about cutting back on Social Security. The absolute last thing we should do in 2013 - at the very moment that Social Security has become the principal lifeline for millions of our seniors -- is allow the program to begin to be dismantled inch by inch.'


Source URL: https://portside.org/2017-12-18/real-and-growing-crisis