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• The National ‘Put the Middle Class First’ Bus Tour Rolls Into Illinois, Joined by Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky

  October 13, 2014:  http://www.americansunitedforchange.org/ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts:   Jeremy Funk, 605-366-3654 Blake Williams (Traveling Press Secretary), 407-902-7399 18-State Tour Underscores Clear Choice Voters Face in November: Democrats’ Middl...Read more >

• 79 Years Ago…

  August 14, 2014: On August 14 Social Security is turning 79 and we are celebrating with birthday parties around the country! This card will be delivered to members of Congress everywhere, reminding them how important our Social Security system is to Americans of all ...Read more >

• Call Your U.S. Representative Today to Stop the Closing of our Social Security Offices

  July 22, 2014: Over the last few years, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has seen its budget drastically cut by Congress, resulting in 11,000 fewer staff to provide customer service to the roughly 25 million Americans who visited Field Offices in 2013. T...Read more >

• 95,000 Petition Signatures Gathered to Stop Social Security Administration Offices from Closing

  June 18, 2014: Closing Has Already Occurred in Chicago Chicago – On Wednesday, June 18, the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging is holding a hearing to examine the impact of recent Social Security field office closures and service cuts. In conjunction with ...Read more >

• Stop Closing Our Social Security Offices

  June 17, 2014: Since 2010, some members of Congress have been so intent on cutting your earned benefits that they’ve forced the country through a series of self-imposed crises. But benefit cuts aren’t the only way to dismantle our Social Security system. There ...Read more >

• RAISE Your Voice For Social Security

  June 11, 2014: Yesterday, Senators Mark Begich (D-AK) and Patty Murray (D-WA) announced exciting new legislation to expand Social Security. The Retirement and Income Security Enhancement Act of 2014 (or RAISE Act) would increase benefits for many widows, widowers a...Read more >

• Tell Legislators to Stop Massive Cuts to Vital Services

  May 14, 2014: The fate of Illinois’ state budget will be determined before the end of the month. There will be massive cuts to services, including home care services for seniors, if the 5% income tax is not made permanent. Send a letter to your state legislat...Read more >

• Tell Marco Rubio: RESPECT YOUR ELDERS, INCLUDING OUR SOCIAL SECURITY & MEDICARE!

  May 13, 2014: Yesterday, Florida Senator and potential presidential candidate Marco Rubio called for the end of Social Security and Medicare. In a speech at the National Press Club in Washington DC, he reiterated what he has said in the past: The only way to s...Read more >

• Could have had a tax cut if…

  April 15, 2014: …we had enacted a Fair Tax.  By now, almost all of us have filed our taxes. When many of us looked at our state returns, we were not happy with what we saw.  We’re working with A Better Illinois coalition to make sure next year is much differ...Read more >

• Tell Your Representative: Oppose the Ryan Medicare-Killing Budget!

  April 07, 2014: House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan unveiled a Republican budget on April Fools’ Day that once again proposes privatizing Medicare and turning it into a voucher system, while lowering tax rates on the wealthy and corporations. Tell your re...Read more >