The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Social Security

Feature Stories

• Privatizing Social Security Would Harm Those Most in Need - 10/10/05
• Social Security Turns 70 as Debate Over Its Future Continues - 8/15/05
• New NCLR Report: Latinos Have a Major Stake in Social Security Debate  - 6/21/05
• Civil Rights Coalition: All Americans Threatened by "Stealth Attack" on Social Security - 5/4/05
• Advocates Tell Shopping Senator to Save Social Security - 5/18/05
• Americans of All Ages, Backgrounds Claim Stake in Social Security Debate - 3/30/05
• Social Security Reform: What's at Stake for Women - 6/25/02

Reports

• Protecting Social Security's Beneficiaries (pdf) - Economic Policy Institute - 11/20/07
• Building on Social Security's Success (pdf) - Economic Policy Institute - 11/20/07
• An Oldie But Goodie: The Importance of Social Security as a Source of Retirement Income - Center for American Progress - 8/9/07
• Selling Us Short: How Social Security Privatization Will Affect Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Americans - National Gay and Lesbian Task Force - 8/9/05
• President Misleads on Social Security Rate of Return (pdf) - Center on Budget Policy and Priorities - 6/6/05
• The Social Security Program and Reform: A Latino Perspective - National Council of La Raza - June 2005
• Would Private Accounts Provide a Higher Rate of Return Than Social Security? (pdf) - Center on Budget Policy and Priorities - 6/2/05
• Social Security Privatization: Abandoning Family Values (pdf) - Center for American Progress - 5/9/05
• Social Security Privatization: The Mother of All Unfunded Mandates (pdf) - Center for American Progress - 4/8/05
• Social Security Privatization Plan Would Devastate State Economies - Campaign for America's Future - 4/1/05
• Social Security: The Most Important Anti-Poverty Program for Children - Center for Economic and Policy Research - 3/28/05
• Weak Economy Moves Social Security Depletion Date Closer (pdf) - Center for Economic and Policy Research - 3/23/05
• Collision Course: The Bush Budget and Social Security - Economic Policy Institute - 3/16/05
• Social Security Lifts 13 Million Seniors Above the Poverty Line - Center for Budget and Policy Priorities - 2/24/05
• Social Security: Women, Children, and the States (pdf) - National Women's Law Center - 2/1/05
• The Public Response to the Consequences of Social Security Private Accounts - AARP - 1/31/05
• The Social Security Privatization Crisis: Assessing the Impact on African American Families - Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. - 1/19/05
• Increasing the Age of Eligibility for Social Security and Medicare - AARP - 9/1/00
• Widows, Poverty, and Social Security Policy Options (pdf) - NASI - 8/1/00

Other Resources

• Social Security: Basic Data Fact Sheet - AARP - April 2005
• Social Security History 
• Social Security Administration
• Wade Henderson Speech at LCCR Social Security Press Conference - 4/25/05