White House Looks to Sweeten Social Security Plan
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The White House is looking for ways  to sell jittery members of Congress and the public on a  controversial strategy that would revamp Social Security by  reducing future retiree benefits, analysts and Republican  sources say.
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President Bush stuck to generalities in his State of the Union message, but the White House this week provided some details of its plan to set up private accounts in the Social Security system. The administration didn't lay out a complete road map. It remains unclear, for example, how much traditional benefits will have to be cut or how the ...
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WASHINGTON - An overhaul of Social Security to allow personal investment accounts won&#39;t fix the looming financial shortfall by itself, the White House said Wednesday.
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The White House said on Monday it  would borrow money to help pay for adding personal retirement  accounts to Social Security, after ruling out tax increases to  finance a transition experts say could cost $1 trillion to $2  trillion over 10 years.
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The president wants to tap prominent figures outside the administration to help sell rewrites of Social Security and the tax laws to Congress and the country, White House aides and advisers said over the weekend.
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President Bush warned younger  workers on Tuesday of a grim future for their Social Security  benefits in a bid to counter increasingly vocal opposition to  his plan to add private accounts to the retirement program.
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The debate in Washington, DC, has started over the reformation of Social Security. The 1935 plan of President Franklin D. Roosevelt is a safety net Americans have come to depend on.
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President's plan to overhaul Social Security reflects bigger fight of free market vs. safety net.
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President Bush, on a trip to pitch his Social Security plans, tried on Thursday to calm restive Republicans who fear the political consequences of supporting his idea for personal retirement accounts.
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What's behind the President's ideas for Social Security
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A leaked White House memo on Social  Security suggested on Thursday that President Bush may favor  cutting benefits for future retirees as part of a plan to  privatize the popular federal program.
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Fresh from re-election, President Bush is dusting off an ambitious proposal to overhaul Social Security, a controversial idea that had been shelved because of politics and the administration's focus on tax cuts and terrorism.
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The US president says he plans far-reaching reforms to the Social Security system which funds pensions.
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President Bush sought support from congressional leaders of both parties Monday for his aggressive proposal to overhaul Social Security during his second term.
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President Bush plans to make the case for reforming Social Security at the economic summit he will open Wednesday. He couldn&#39;t pick a more ambitious, or more devilish, domestic project.
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President Bush's advisers have settled on a proposal for structuring the personal accounts they hope to create in Social Security, while on Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats were launching an effort to defeat the plan altogether.
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WASHINGTON -- A White House-picked parade of specialists lauded President Bush's policies at an economic summit yesterday, but some peppered their praise with warnings that the economy could tumble unless the White House comes up with viable plans to overhaul Social Security and halve the deficit.