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NEWS ABOUT: entitlement programs

entitlement programs stories: 9 news summaries
David Leonhardt

Forget the $250 Checks, Obama: Say No to Grandma

To cut deficit, we have to cut benefits to seniors

Oct 28, 09 8:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Economists are none too impressed with Barack Obama's proposal to send each senior a cool $250, and David Leonhardt can see why. The over-65 set has weathered the recession better than anyone—many of them purchased real estate well before the housing bubble burst, and few work in the most-battered... More »

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Barack Obama • entitlement programs • Medicare • Social Security • senior citizens • Obama administration

(Newser) - The recession has hurt the already-shaky finances of Medicare and Social Security, the Washington Post reports. Medicare is now projected to run out of money in 2017, two years earlier than the last projection. Social Security, meanwhile, is expected to be insolvent in 2037, four years earlier. The annual report... More »

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entitlement programs • Medicare • recession • Social Security • Social Security trustees • Jay-ZTV

OPINION

Obama's Secret Plan to Control Your Healthcare

President serves candy now, spinach later: Krauthammer

Apr 24, 09 1:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is going to need more than a “cash-cow carbon tax” to fund his goals of “nationalized health care” and “federalized education,” writes Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post. Obama’s going to have to slash Social Security and Medicare. But his current health... More »

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Barack Obama • entitlement programs • Medicare • universal health care • Medicaid • Charles Krauthammer

Interview

Obama Vows Social Security, Medicare Reform

Will hold summit
to hash out ways to
rein in spending

Jan 16, 09 8:05 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama promised major overhauls for the country’s ever-growing entitlement programs yesterday in a wide-ranging interview with the Washington Post. We have “kicked this can down the road,” Obama said. “We are now at the end of the road.” Obama will hold a... More »

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Barack Obama • entitlement programs • Medicare • Social Security • interview • President Obama

Obama Targets Social Security, Medicare

Faced with trillion-dollar deficit, president-elect vows reform, trims

Jan 8, 09 7:38 AM CST
(Newser) - In his first foray into the hazardous terrain of entitlement programs, Barack Obama said yesterday that his administration would overhaul Social Security and Medicare to clamp down on government spending. At a news conference and in a subsequent interview with the New York Times, the president-elect said, "If we... More »

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Barack Obama • entitlement programs • Medicare • deficit • Social Security • economic stimulus package • President Obama

OPINION

Paterson Should Say No to Caroline, Dynasties


Dec 29, 08 3:16 PM CST
(Newser) - Should Gov. David Paterson give Caroline Kennedy a chance to serve New York in the Senate? No! “Dynasties suck,” reasons Alex Pareene of Gawker, and we should take the opportunity to quash this one. Although it’s not fair, Caroline has become the left’s Sarah Palin, and... More »

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Congress • media • Senate • entitlement programs • Democrat • Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg • political dynasty • Fran Drescher

OPINION

Don't Take the 'Gold' Out of Americans' Golden Years

And why is retirement reform taboo?

Dec 4, 08 3:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Snow White’s dwarf pals are so happy to go to work that they sing about it, “and they’re 71 years old,” writes Irwin Stelzer of the Weekly Standard. “So why do so many of us less vertically disadvantaged worry about” extending the retirement age?... More »

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entitlement programs • age • retirement • Social Security • senior citizens • retirement benefits

McCain Vows
to Balance
the Budget

Social Security reform one scenario; Dems
call plan unrealistic

Jul 7, 08 1:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain will pledge to balance the budget by the end of his first term, Politico reports, promising spending and entitlement programs, including Social Security, in a policy paper released today. McCain is renewing a promise he’d backed off from in April—a vow likely to excite his fellow... More »

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John McCain • entitlement programs • Medicare • budget • spending • Social Security • McCain 2008 • balanced budget • economy

Record 28 Million Americans to Get Food Stamps

Slip into poverty a grim economic indicator

Mar 31, 08 4:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - In an economic indicator that paints a grim future for swaths of the US population, an all-time record 28 million Americans are expected to be close enough to poverty to receive $36 billion in food stamps in the coming fiscal year, reports the New York Times. There is a surge... More »

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layoffs • entitlement programs • recession • unemployment • Congressional Budget Office • poverty • gas prices • food prices • economy • food stamps • Economic Policy Institute

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