Social Security
A new proposal in Congress aims to resurrect an old tradition: mailing Social Security statements to your home.
Since 2011, the Social Security Administration has cut back on the number of paper statements it puts in the mail in order to save money.
A new bill, called the Know Your Social Security Act, aims to reinstate those statements for all workers ages 25 and up.
For a generation of Irish American men, John F. Kennedy symbolized all they might do and become in the United States. Journalist Pete Hamill, who learned of Kennedy's death while visiting relatives in Belfast, wrote of feeling unsafe years later when his car broke down on a remote road in rural Mexico. Unsafe, that is, until he arrived at the nearest house and saw portraits of JFK and the Virgin of Guadalupe on the mud-brick wall.
U.S. Rep. John Larson's longstanding quest to save the Social Security system has an important new ally: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The millennial congresswoman from Queens made a video with Larson calling for the House of Representatives to vote on the Social Security 2100 Act.
"It takes all of us coming together to preserve and save Social Security,'' Ocasio-Cortez said in the video, which was posted on Larson's social media channels.
