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Deficit Reduction: Women Will Suffer More

Deficit Reduction: Women Will Suffer More

By on December 3, 2012 in Motherhood and poverty, Motherhood penalty, Price of Motherhood, Social Security, Uncategorized

Christmas trees are popping up around the Capitol, in front of the White House, and in the foyer of every K Street lobby shop.  While snowmen and Santa are everywhere, the talk is anything but festive and joyful – for the moment, the term on everyone’s lips is “shared sacrifice”.  As in, budget cuts will touch one [...]

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Raising the Retirement Age Is Cutting Benefits by the Back Door

By on September 10, 2010 in NCWO, OWES, Social Security

Everybody in Washington is obsessed with the deficit. It’s a serious issue with far reaching implications, to be sure. One of the ideas being batted about is that raising the retirement age will save on “entitlement costs” and decrease our national debts in an equitable and acceptable way. Many feminist economists, social scientists, and women’s [...]

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Today’s Mothers are Tomorrow’s Older Women

By on January 19, 2010 in Economy and Mothers, Mothers, Older Women, Social Security

Today we are mothers; tomorrow we will be older women. It’s inevitable. My colleague, Ashley Carson, fights the good fight against economic discrimination against mothers and other caregivers at the Older Women’s League. Her essay on congressional shenanigans with a “fast track commission”, bringing their ax down on our future social security benefits in the [...]

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Sister, Can You Spare a Dime? Women & Unemployment Insurance

By on December 28, 2009 in Economy and Women, Social Security

Like peeling away the layers of an onion, the recession has a way of peeling away the protective layers we put up to buffer ourselves from the bumps and jolts of hard times. When our defenses are gone, it’s easy to see who the most vulnerable people are. Right now in this country, the most [...]

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It’s Not Sexy – It’s Social Security!

By on December 14, 2009 in Economy and Women, Social Security

Few women get excited about Social Security, the most successful and efficient effort undertaken by the federal government. I know, I know, I’ve heard all the excuses – all those numbers, it’s something retirees worry about, and anyway, it probably won’t even be there when we get old. Wrong, wrong, and wrong again. If you [...]

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