Report: Social Security Keeping Millions Out Of Poverty
642 views · Published 2 August 2013 · 4:23 · Indexed 6 November 2026
Channel: Secular Talk · 2013 · News & Politics
The nation's poverty crisis would be a lot worse if it wasn't for safety net programs -- particularly Social Security, a new analysis finds. If Social Security didn't exist, about 25 million more Americans would be in poverty, according to an analysis of 2011 Census data from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. That would push one measure of the poverty rate up from 16.1 percent to 24.4 percent, as the chart below illustrates... Read More At: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/31/social-security-poverty_n_3682625.html Clip from the Thursday, August 1st 2013 edition of The Kyle Kulinski Show, which airs live on Blog Talk Radio and Secular Talk Radio monday - friday 5-7pm Eastern. Check out our website - and become a member - at: http://www.SecularTalkRadio.com Listen to the Live Show or On Demand archive at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kylekulinski Follow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kylekulinski Like on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SecularTalk Friends Of SecularTalk: http://www.facebook.com/beastofreason AMAZON LINK: (Bookmark this link to support the show for free!!!) http://www.amazon.com/?tag=seculacom-20
