Fact Sheets

• Position Paper: Debt Commission Legislation Fast Tracks Cuts to Social Security and Medicare

  January 21, 2024: Social Security and Medicare have been the foundation of retirement security for generations of Americans, providing income and health care to millions. Americans earn these benefits, contributing to them with every paycheck. On January 18, 2024 t...Read more >

• Fact Sheet: Social Security and Medicare: Current Facts and Figures

  December 15, 2023: Nearly 182 million workers contribute to Social Security and Medicare through payroll taxes. Details like benefit amounts and premiums change each year. Our fact sheet has the latest figures for 2023. Download the fact sheet here....Read more >

• Fact Sheet: The Inflation Reduction Act and Prescription Drug Prices

  August 25, 2023: One in four people over the age of 65 report not taking at least one prescription drug as prescribed due to its cost. Meanwhile, pharmaceutical corporations are making record profits, lining the pockets of their executives and shareholders while pati...Read more >

• Position Paper: Expanding Social Security

  July 19, 2023: Today 66 million Americans – one out of every five households – relies on Social Security’s lifetime, guaranteed benefits. To continue to provide retirement security for current and future generations, it is time to strengthen and expand Soc...Read more >

• Fact Sheet: Medicaid Facts

  June 30, 2023: Medicaid is a social safety net program that provides health coverage for pregnant women, children, the disabled and seniors with low-incomes. Download the fact sheet....Read more >

• Position Paper: RSC Budget Proposal

  June 30, 2023: The Republican Study Committee (RSC), a House Caucus consisting of 175 members out of a total Republican House Caucus of 222 members (nearly 80%), proposed a budget that would, if enacted, increase Social Security’s full retirement age to 69 and su...Read more >

• Fact Sheet: Social Security: Current Facts and Figures 2023

  June 30, 2023: Nearly 182 million workers contribute to Social Security through payroll taxes. Details like benefit amounts and premiums change each year. Our fact sheet has the latest figures for 2023. Read more...Read more >

• Position Paper: Threats to Social Security

  April 26, 2023: 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 ol...Read more >

• Position Paper: PRO Act

  March 01, 2023: The labor movement has been, and continues to be, the leading force in the fight to strengthen Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, ensuring a measure of retirement security for all Americans. Our country, our democracy and our people benefit when...Read more >

• Position Paper: Increasing the Debt Ceiling Fact Sheet

  February 07, 2023: The debt ceiling is a legal restriction on how much money the federal government can borrow to pay its bills. Congress instituted the debt ceiling in 1917 as a way to rein in federal agencies that were ignoring Congress and setting their own budgets,...Read more >