Retirement Security

• Resolution Holding Down Energy Costs

  June 17, 2008: Adopted June 17, 2008. Whereas commodity price increases have placed a disproportionate burden on older Americans who are on fixed incomes; and Whereas gasoline prices now average more than $4 per gallon, a 267 percent increase since 2001; and ...Read more >

• Resolution Long-Term Care

  March 29, 2007: Adopted September 6, 2002 Amended March 29, 2007  Whereas long-term care covers a range of services in a variety of settings; and Whereas 10 million Americans of all ages living in communities and nursing homes have significant limitations in a...Read more >

• Resolution Housing and Services for Older Americans

  March 29, 2007: Adopted   September 6, 2002 Amended   March 29, 2007 Whereas the bi-partisan Commission on Affordable Housing and Health Facility Needs for Seniors in the 21st Century has determined that there is “A Quiet Crisis in America.” A minority of ...Read more >

• Resolution National Health Care

  September 06, 2006: Adopted September 6, 2006 Whereas the United States is the only major industrialized country without a universal system of health care; and Whereas the United States spends more money on health care per capita than any other industrialized countr...Read more >

• Resolution Health Care Price Transparency

  September 06, 2006: Adopted September 6, 2006 Whereas there is a strong tradition of secrecy regarding price information for health care services; and Whereas health care providers have little incentive to disclose prices because health care services are lucrative; ...Read more >

• Resolution Electronic Medical Records

  September 06, 2006: Adopted September 6, 2006 Whereas electronic medical records, as part of a secure national network of health information that is accessible by patients and health care providers, will improve health care quality and efficiency, reduce medical erro...Read more >

• Resolution Supplemental Security Income

  September 06, 2006: Adopted September 6, 2006 Whereas the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program provides basic safety net protection for over 7 million low-income aged, blind, and disabled adults and children with few resources; and Whereas the eligibility requ...Read more >

• Resolution Budget and Tax Policy

  September 06, 2006: Adopted September 6, 2006 Whereas in January 2001 the Congressional Budget Office projected a budget surplus of $5.6 trillion from 2002 to 2011; in 2006 the baseline for the same period is projected as a deficit of $2.7 trillion; and Whereas CBO ...Read more >

• Resolution Workers’ Right to Organize

  September 06, 2006: Adopted September 6, 2006 Whereas the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 states: “Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests;” and Wher...Read more >

• Resolution The Right to Vote

  September 06, 2006: Adopted September 6, 2006 Whereas the right to vote is fundamental to democracy; and Whereas the United States, the world’s oldest continuous democracy, has expanded the franchise throughout her history; and Whereas voter participation in th...Read more >