Understanding The Right's Never-Ending War to Destroy Social Security (w/ Alex Lawson)
Alex Lawson is the Executive Director of Social Security Works and the convening member of the Strengthen Social Security Coalition. He has spent his career working to try to save Social Security from Republican (and sometimes Democratic) attempts to "reform" (i.e., cut) it. Today, Alex joins to discuss:
Why Social Security is a huge social democratic achievement and the fight it took to get it in the first place
Why the right has always hated Social Security (it shows government can work and successfully help people) and the history of their attempts to undermine it
The lies and propaganda…
The skinny
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