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Security We need to rethink the Social Security system to ensure its survival beyond the retirement of the baby boomers. We must guarantee existing benefits for retirees and near retirees while reshaping the system for the next generation. Some in Congress favor privatizing the program but existing proposals to do so do not own up to the cost of changing the current program and nearly every privatization proposal assumes changes that would hurt low-income workers who can least afford to play the stock market with their retirement funds. I believe that any reform proposal must ensure that Social Security is preserved and strengthened so that an adequate minimum benefit will be available to future retirees. Social Security is more than just a retirement program, and reforms cannot abandon our responsibility to provide for workers who become severely disabled or for the families of workers who die young. Reform should not be borne on the backs of our lower-income laborers and should ensure that women, who move in and out of the workforce more frequently than men, are not disproportionately hurt by changes in Social Security. |
SENATOR DICK DURBIN'S LEGISLATIVE
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