Migrant workers often can't register in the cities where they work, and subsequently can't qualify for social services such as public education or social security.
Mr Ensign's ideas on Social Security and public education look remarkably similar to George W. Bush's, and Mr Bernstein's prescription-drug plan comes straight from the Gore book.
Getting both parties to share the pain is also the only realistic way to tackle tough long-term problems, like the looming bankruptcy of Social Security (public pensions) and Medicare (public health care for the elderly).
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He proposes tax cuts that are modest by Republican standards, more than half of them targeted on the poorest taxpayers, and wants most of the budget surplus to go on financing the transition costs of reforming the Social Security (public pensions) system.
The Social Security Statement is one of the best things Social Security has ever done for the public.
But the reform did not apply to the Social Security Institute's own employees (nor to other public-sector workers who have a separate social-security institute).
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However, this is not the biggest problem that the public sees with Social Security privatization.
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The public opposes raising Social Security taxes, cutting benefits, or hiking the retirement age to shore up the system.
The public discussion of social security taxes, unemployment benefits, and stimulus takes place in the language of Keynesian multipliers and stimulus counterfactuals.
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The public looks at Social Security as the foundation of retirement security.
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It is, therefore, not surprising that American workers perceive Social Security as a public retirement plan they pay into each and every payday.
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The Social Security Administration and the Public Health Service recruited staff for the UMW program.
Mr. Blahous is a senior research fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center and a public trustee of the Social Security and Medicare programs.
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Indeed, for private and public pension funds including Social Security, investing in healthcare companies could be the ideal natural hedge to their growing liabilities.
After his social security number was made public, Burkle successfully sought to seal or redact certain information, citing the threat of identity theft, stalking and kidnapping.
As background, Chuck Blahous is one of two public trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, having been appointed to this post by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
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Nor is it necessarily true that anyone counseling a lengthy public conversation on Medicare and Social Security reform running up to a presidential election is timidly kicking the can down the road to avoid the subject.
Rather than band together to force higher taxes on the extremely wealthy (and save public programs like Medicare and Social Security, as well as schools, roads, and other necessary government expenditures), the middle class is divided and politically weak.
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While those bonds are expressly non-transferable, which means they cannot be sold to the general public, the federal government can sell new bonds to the public to pay off these Social Security bonds, without exceeding the current national debt limit.
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This is great news for the Democratic Party, even though when it comes to fixing the public schools, shoring up Social Security or overhauling the immigration system, it tends to put its own narrow interests before the broader interests of its most loyal constituents.
Pedro Passos Coelho said social security, health, education and public enterprises would have to be cut.
Both were made possible by a sizeable reduction of public spending following upon restrictions in social security.
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That's because guaranteed public and private annuities, mainly Social Security and corporate pensions, are sure to decline over time, as is Medicare coverage.
Polling continues to show issues such as education, health care and Social Security at the top of the public's agenda, and Americans generally give higher grades to congressional Democrats on those issues.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Federal debt held by the public (which does not include social security obligations) was 35 percent of GDP in 2000, 62 percent in the second quarter of 2010, and is expected to reach 70 percent in 2011.
At that bottom end of the scale, retired and unemployed Americans rely far more on safety nets: the lowest-earning fifth of the population gets 48% of its yearly income from retirement funds like Social Security, and 9% from public assistance programs like food stamps.
If such plans did not exist, who would pick up the tab for those baby boomers looking to retire soon, especially considering that private pension plans are going away, Social Security is nearly insolvent, and public pension plans are severely underfunded and mismanaged by state and municipal governments?
Hence, virtually all benefits can be paid out of revenues without having to borrow more money from the public, and the relatively small Social Security deficits expected during the coming decade (3% of payroll tax revenues) can and should be covered by earmarking enough general revenues to redeem the Trust Fund IOUs Congress left behind when it looted Social Security during the past 25 years.
Too much is being spent on badly targeted social-security schemes and on poor-quality public services.
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