US Social Security

With Republicans in control of Congress, the US single-payer pension system is being targeted for cuts. National women’s groups, however, are campaigning on behalf of this system that doesn’t add to the national debt and really works.

Featured guests:

Frances Perkins, US Secretary of Labor under Roosevelt; Heidi Hartmann, PhD economist, founder and President of Washington-based Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

Credits:

Produced by Frieda Werden.


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