White House Urges Social Security Benefit Cuts --WSJ
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The White House has written a memo  arguing that changing the Social Security system will require  reducing benefits as well as setting up private investment  accounts, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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A majority of Americans want to see  few changes to Social Security and most oppose private  accounts, according to a poll from the seniors' group AARP,  which is fighting a White House plan to overhaul the program.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Friday the country will face "abrupt and painful" choices unless Congress acts quickly to trim Social Security and Medicare benefits for the baby boom generation. He said the government has promised more than it can deliver.
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WHAT'S POSSIBLE: Social Security disability benefits may not be safe from the across-the-board cuts that are likely in President Bush's proposal to allow personal investment accounts.
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President George W. Bush on Friday called for a package of tax cuts and other measures totaling around $140 billion to shore up the fragile U.S. economy.
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Vice President Dick Cheney took on critics of the administration's Social Security overhaul plans Thursday, arguing that channeling part of workers' salaries into the stock market would help pull poor Americans up the financial ladder.
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President George W. Bush said Social Security is headed for bankruptcy and pressed his plan for private retirement accounts as a coalition representing labor, women, blacks, seniors and the disabled challenged his proposal.
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President Bush said Thursday that ``now is the time to confront Social Security&#39;&#39; to deal with a projected $3.7 trillion shortfall over 75 years and give younger workers the
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U.S. President George W. Bush's fiscal 2009 budget proposal released on Monday takes into account that the U.S. economy is facing a slowdown, the White House said.
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President Bush proposed the biggest  overhaul of Social Security since its 1935 creation on  Wednesday night in his State of the Union speech, and for the  first time said he would consider limiting future retirement  benefits as part of a solution.
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President George W. Bush, facing pressure to trim a record US budget deficit, will combine a push to restructure Social Security with a call for spending discipline as he wraps up a two-day economic summit.
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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.
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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said in a report yesterday that Social Security is facing a $13.6 trillion shortfall in coming years and that delaying reforms is not fair to younger workers.
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyo  - Rising pressure on U.S.  finances from an aging population make it vital quickly fix the  social safety net with such steps as raising the age for full  retirement benefits, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan  said on Friday.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration unveiled a proposal yesterday to make it easier for companies to enroll workers in pension plans such as 401(k)s, a move supporters hope will increase participation.
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Social Security, the entitlement that keeps millions of elderly Americans out of poverty with monthly checks gleaned from payroll taxes, ranks as one of Flint Journal readers&#39; top issues in this presidential election.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan urged Congress on Wednesday to take a go-slow approach in setting up the private Social Security accounts favored by President Bush. The president said he wasn't ruling out taxing high-income workers more to help the retirement program.