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Social Security Overview | Challenges Facing Social Security

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2006 Social Security Documents
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Issue Brief:  The Bush Social Security Privatization Benefit Cuts: State-by-State Impact

 
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Fact Sheet:  New GAO Report Confirms Impact of Bush Benefit Cut Plan

 
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Full GAO Report on Social Security Benefit Cuts

 

Social Security Privatization:  A Continuing Threat

 
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Despite Overwhelming Public Opposition - Bush Still Pushing Privatization in FY2007 Budget

 
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2004 - 2005 Social Security Documents
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Latest Republican Privatization Plan Offers More Of The Same:  Weakens Social Security and Raids the Trust Fund 

 
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Latest Republican Privatization Plan Offers More Of The Same:  This Latest Republican Proposal is Still Privatization, Pure and Simple

 
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New Republican Social Security Plan Would Continue To "Raid" the Social Security Trust Fund

 
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Dear Colleague:  The Republican Plan to Privatize Social Security - Public not fooled by gimmicks and false rhetoric

 
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New GOP Plan Offers More of the Same: Privatizes Social Security, Raids the Trust Fund, and Weakens Social Security -- FACT SHEET

 
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Analysis: "Sliding Scale" Benefit Cuts

 
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Bush Reaffirms His Social Security Goals: Insists on Private Accounts, Benefit Cuts and Debt

 
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Dear Democratic Colleague - Congressman John Tanner's Op-ed on compelling criticisms of the Budget and Social Security proposals form the Bush Administration

 
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Letter to Treasury Secretary Snow on Assets Held by Social Security Trust Fund

 
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CRS Report on Phasing Out of Social Security Guaranteed Benefits

Fact Sheet and Chart on CRS Report on Phasing Out of Social Security Guaranteed Benefits

 

Dear Colleague:  Social Security and Privatization - REALITY CHECK - Sixth in a Series

 
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Dear Colleague:  Social Security and Privatization - REALITY CHECK - Fifth in a Series

 
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Dear Colleague:  Social Security and Privatization - REALITY CHECK - Fourth in a Series

 
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Dear Colleague:  Social Security and Privatization - REALITY CHECK - Third in a Series

 
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Dear Colleague:  Social Security and Privatization - REALITY CHECK - Second in a Series

 
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Dear Colleague:  Social Security and Privatization - REALITY CHECK - First in a Series

 
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Dear Colleague:  Stop Putting Words in the late Senator Moynihan's Mouth

 
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Dear Colleague:  Social Security Privatization Advocates Rely on False Claims About African Americans and Life Expectancy

 
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Bush's Privatization Tax:  A Shell Game with Private Accounts

 
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President's State of the Union Rhetoric Doesn't Match Social Security's Reality

 
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H.R. 4910, the Social Security COLA Protection Act - explanation and examples  
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Matsui at the head of a conference tableMatsui, Stark July 21, 2004 Press Conference: Protecting the Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment  
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1. National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare

 
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2. Alliance for Retired Americans

 
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3. Families USA

 
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View the Joint Economic Committee press release on this issue

 
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Matsui Release: New CBO Report Confirms Social Security Faces a Challenge, Not a Crisis
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Matsui Release: Trustees Report Shows Continued Strength of Social Security

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Rangel, Matsui Dear Colleague: Fact Sheet on H.R. 743, the "Social Security Protection Act"

 
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