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  • The squeeze on social security: Retirees feel pinched as costs rise but incomes don't

    03/31/2011 4:29:42 PM PDT · by triumphant values · 41 replies
    The Palm Beach Post ^ | March 31, 2011 | Jeff Ostrowski
    Charlie Maglio, a retired security guard who lives in Greenacres, has grown accustomed to Social Security benefits that don't seem to rise in line with his cost of living. "Living expenses go up, but our Social Security checks don't go up," Maglio said. "People like to get a raise every once in a while." There's no raise on the horizon, however, as rising health care costs threaten to negate a planned increase in Social Security payments that would be the first in two years. The federal government projects a small cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security benefits next year, the first...
  • NORTH CAROLINA and PENNSYLVANIA --Carry the Torch from Texas and Ohio! "OPERATION CHAOS"

    03/25/2008 11:01:30 AM PDT · by GVnana · 253 replies · 2,482+ views
    3/25/2008 | GVnana
    Call to Action. We want to help our fellow activists in PA and send them a signal we are working on this too, and synergize our efforts down here in NC with PA Activists in this next set of Primaries and keep passing this torch from state to state.If savvy Activists had not stepped up in TX & OH, we wouldn’t be seeing this awesome situation! Activists in North Carolina - time is short! April 11 is your deadline to re-register. Don’t re-register as a Democrat - you don’t need to. Instead RE-register as an “Unaffiliated” (what NC refers to...