How to Use this Toolkit This overview will help you get started with your mobilization efforts this Older Americans Month. It provides detailed descriptions of the various sections and materials in the rest of the toolkit. Read more ... Read more
Position Papers and Fact Sheets We included copies of our Social Security Facts and Figures, Expanding Social Security, and Threats to Social Security fact sheets and position papers in the Older Americans Month toolkit, as well as a Retirees Labor 2022 Post-Election Analysis. ... Read more
Lobbying Materials We included a presentation on our earned benefits, a legislative calendar, talking points, an event planning guide, a report back form, and sample letters to the editor to support your mobilization efforts. Read more... Read more
Workers Memorial Day is today, April 28, and the labor movement is observing the occasion by remembering workers killed, injured, or made ill on the job while renewing the fight for strong safety and health protections. More than 50 years ago on April 28, the Occupational Safe... Read more
For decades Social Security has delivered guaranteed, lifetime benefits on time and without interruption to generations of Americans. Beneficiaries earn their Social Security, contributing into the system with every paycheck. Sixty-five million older Americans, people with dis... Read more
Want to help save Social Security? Click here to sign our petition telling Congress to take action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWpFBfQEW3o ... Read more
Alliance Executive Director Richard Fiesta joined President Biden in Accokeek, Maryland Wednesday as Biden derided Republicans’ plans to raise the nation’s debt limit only in exchange for spending cuts and other policy concessions. The week’s events, which began with McC... Read more
Last Friday, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released their monthly report detailing the unspent COVID money – $70 billion of American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds — that House Republicans want to cut as part of a debt limit deal. Two-thirds of the money, ... Read more
Speaker Kevin McCarthy has released a plan to raise the national debt limit by $1.5 trillion in exchange for an array of drastic budget cuts across dozens of domestic programs, setting off a frantic attempt in the House to gather GOP votes. The Republican proposal includes famili... Read more
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