The Problem With Social Security
It's going to hurt more because we are being told that everything is OK, when it clearly isn't. Listen carefully: Short term everything will feel like it's OK, because with stimulus and everything else ... Security financially stable and allow ...

Social Security Increases Are Historically Small This Year
"I live in a small apartment and I have an old car, and it's going to break down. And no doubt when it does, I'll have to fix it or get a new one." Since 1975, annual Social Security raises ... the COLA because everything else you have in ...

Can an illegal immigrant become a lawyer?
Godinez-Samperio is pressing his case as the national ... school to those who have passed the bar. “We’re basically throwing the judicial branch into the immigration debate … through our cases,” he said. In California, Sergio Garcia, 35, an illegal ...

Social Security raise to be lowest in years
Only six times have they been less than 2%, including this year, when the increase was 1.7%. There was no COLA in 2010 ... estimates it will be about 1.5%. Lower prices for gasoline are helping to fuel low inflation, Vlasenko said.

Our Real Deficit Problem Has Nothing to Do With Traditional Government
The Everything Else budget could be balanced easily, just by letting some of the Bush and Obama tax cuts expire. Then we need to deal with Social Security and Medicare. Social Security is basically a pension plan combined with old-age insurance.

Jill Kelley shows that personal debt has become a national-security issue
The David Petraeus scandal seems to present in microcosm everything that America obsesses about ... debt is a loaded issue that can destroy a career. Personal finance is a national-security issue. Too much debt, or debt that goes unpaid, doesn't just ...