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Social Security

More than 90% of working Americans depend on Social Security as the foundation of a secure retirement. You work too hard to risk it on President Bush’s privatization plan.


Use the Social Security Calculator to find out how much the President’s plan will cost you.

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Past Actions
We had to fight to get where we are today!
 
1935  National Labor Relations Act and Social Security Act passed Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) formed within AFL
1936  AFL and CIO create labor's Non-Partisan League and help President Roosevelt win re-election to a second term
1937  Auto Workers win sit-down strike against General Motors in Flint, Mich. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters wins contract with Pullman Co.
1938  Fair Labor Standards Act establishes first minimum wage and 40-hour week Congress of industrial Organizations forms as an independent federation

WASHINGTON — Summoned to success by President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses, a climactic chapter in the century-long quest for near universal coverage.

To pay for the changes, the legislation includes more than $400 billion in higher taxes over a decade, roughly half of it from a new Medicare payroll tax on individuals with incomes over $200,000 and couples over $250,000. A new excise tax on high-cost insurance policies was significantly scaled back in deference to complaints from organized labor.