Social Security
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.
I'm one of the youngest Millennials, born in 1995. Every day, I work to organize young people to take back our government by electing leaders who will fight for our future instead of for corporate donors. That includes fighting to expand, never cut, Social Security's modest benefits.
Wall Street and its allies have spent decades attempting to convince my generation that Social Security won't be there for us—but that's not true. In fact, Millennials and Gen Zs will rely on our Social Security system even more than our parents and grandparents do.