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Cut Social Security & Veterans' Benefits? Cut the Pentagon Instead!
President Obama has endorsed cutting Social Security and veterans' benefits by using the "chained CPI" to lower the cost-of-living adjustment. The Congressional Budget Office says cutting Social Security and veterans' benefits in this way would save the government $163 billion over ten years. But there are much better ways for the government to save $163 billiion. Email President Obama and Congress >
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Anna Blackshaw
Documentary writer, photographer and long-time public policy advocate on issues of economic and social justice.
Julian Bond
Board Chairman of the NAACP since 1998
Professor of History at the University of Virginia
Tom Hayden
Served in the California Assembly and Senate for eighteen years
National Co-Director of the No More Sweatshops campaign
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Lisa Hoyos
President of the Board of the California Coalition for Fair Trade and Human Rights
Dal LaMagna
Founder of the Progressive Government Institute
Member of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities
Vicente Navarro
Professor of Public Policy, Sociology, and Policy Studies at Health Policy and Management and International Health at Johns Hopkins University
Mark Weisbrot
President of Just Foreign Policy
Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research
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