The Save Our Social Security Act: a First Step Toward Reform?

For years, lawmakers have acknowledged the future financial challenges that Social Security faces in meeting its obligations to retirees. Yet more than three decades after the most recent major reform of the program, Social Security continues to elude any long-term solutions from those charged with ensuring its financial stability.

Democrats are winning the Social Security fight

Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even come close... Donald Trump has gone too far with his attacks on Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son Army Capt. Humayun Khan... A Donald Trump White House would be a disaster, and this goes way beyond any ideological difference.

Why Bill Clinton Signed the Welfare Reform Bill, as Explained in 1996

President Bill Clinton clinches his fist during an Oct. 27, 1996, speech on welfare reform at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville During President Bill Clinton's first term in office, much of the United States took for granted that there would be welfare reform of some sort. The question was what it would look like.

Clinton and Trump Aren’t Making Policy Concessions

With less than three months to Election Day, neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump is shifting to the ideological center, a break from modern presidential campaigns that's being driven by the decline of swing voters. In a speech on Thursday, Clinton again emphasized her progressive stances on economic issues such as raising the minimum wage, tuition-free public college, expanding Social Security, adding a public insurance option to the Affordable Care Act, and cracking down on Wall Street.

The Flagging Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

Being savaged by Donald J. Trump on one side of the electoral aisle, and modestly beaten by the Democratic presumptive candidate, Hillary Clinton, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is lying somewhere between near death and miraculous survival. Those breathing life into that unfortunate beast remain politicians who embraced the mythology of free trade while never questioning what was free.

US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Photo: EPA

A Clinton campaign spokesman say that an analytics data program maintained by the DNC and used by the campaign and a number of other entities "was accessed as part of the DNC hack" A computer network used by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign was hacked as part of a broad cyber attack on Democratic political organisations, people familiar with the matter said. The latest attack, which was disclosed on Friday, follows two other hacks on the Democratic National Committee, or DNC, and the party's fundraising committee for candidates for the US House of Representatives.

In month marked by crises, local law enforcement spent $3 million in overtime

Advocate staff photo by BRIANNA PACIORKA -- An East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office SWAT vehicle drives on Government St. toward the interstate after law enforcement moved in on protesters during a protest held on East Boulevard in downtown Baton Rouge on Sunday, July 10, 2016. Advocate staff photo by BRIANNA PACIORKA -- An East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office SWAT vehicle drives on Government St. toward the interstate after law enforcement moved in on protesters during a protest held on East Boulevard in downtown Baton Rouge on Sunday, July 10, 2016.

For inspiration, new Democratic stars look to Elizabeth Warren

Twelve years ago, Barack Obama's electrifying speech at the Democratic National Convention brought tears to Andrew Gillum's eyes. Now mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, and viewed as a rising star in that state, Gillum did not hesitate when asked to name his political role model.

Nine candidates vie to succeed Jim McDermott in Congress

Congressman Jim McDermott announced his retirement at the end of this year, leaving an open seat for Washington state's 7th Congressional District. Nine candidates are running to replace him and all nine were present at the candidate forum held by the League of Women Voters on Saturday at Shoreline City Hall.

GOP can ignore the debt, but it won’t ignore our children

Four years ago, when Republicans gathered in Tampa to endorse Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., as their party's vice-presidential nominee, it signaled the growing prominence that the debt issue had gained within the party. For decades, Republicans had sounded alarms about runaway spending, while in practice, they avoided doing anything to reform entitlements - the true driver of the nation's long-term debt problem.

Senior Citizen Group Endorses Hillary Clinton

Citing her commitment to expand Social Security, strengthen Medicare and rein in prescription drug prices, the executive board of the Alliance for Retired Americans voted to endorse Hillary Clinton for president. "Hillary Clinton has been a champion for retirees throughout her distinguished career.

SCOTUS non-decision may block thousands of undocumented East Texans

After a 4-4 decision, an injunction against President Barack Obama's immigration program remains effective, blocking an estimated 4 million undocumented immigrants from applying for temporary work authorization. Representatives at the Hispanic American Association of East Texas in Tyler, which serves seventeen counties, say they were prepared to see hundreds through their doors, if the high court decision held in favor of the program.

Candidates avoid Medicare, Social Security finance woes

The nation's framework for economic security and health care in retirement is financially unsustainable, but you wouldn't know it from listening to the presidential candidates. This week the Social Security and Medicare trustees warned of tough choices ahead to keep the two programs solvent over the long run.

You Will Never Be As Ecstatic As This Woman Delivering Pizzas To Rep. John Lewis

Rep. John Lewis , a civil rights icon who led historic sit-ins in the 1960s, staged another sit-in on the floor of the House of Representatives Wednesday to pressure Republicans to bring up a vote on gun control legislation. People showed their support for Lewis in a variety of ways: Fellow House brought donuts ; protesters gathered outside the U.S. Capitol.