The Trump Administration is planning a proposal to prevent too many people, especially older adults, from qualifying for Social Security disability benefits they need.

New from @seemiaroll.bsky.social & me for @americanprogress.bsky.social www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

Read more about how paid leave got left out & what it would mean to finally complete Social Security with #PaidLeaveForAll here (7/7): scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Without paid leave, Social Security remains incomplete today, at profound cost to us all. After nearly a century, it is time to complete Social Security by restoring the final form of wage loss insurance that should have been there all along: paid leave. (6/7)

However, largely due to political opposition from the medical societies, paid leave was left out. As a result, Roosevelt spent years calling to complete the system by adding this missing component; when FDR died, Truman made adding back this protection a signature goal of his administration. (5/7)

The creators of the Social Security Act strongly considered including wage loss benefits for illness, studying the idea at length and even drafting an amendment to add them to the law while it was still pending in Congress. (4/7) www.ssa.gov/history/pdf/...

The Social Security Act created unemployment insurance and retirement benefits to make up for lost wages due to job loss or old age. But the law was incomplete in large part because it did not make up for lost wages when you get sick or hurt—what today we would call paid leave. (3/7)

In his signing statement, FDR said the Social Security Act “represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means complete.” (2/7) www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/st...

90 years ago today, President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act, creating protections Americans have built lives and livelihoods on for generations. But this crucial law has had a missing piece since its creation: paid leave. A 🧵 (1/7):

The Department of Child Snatching

Biden’s FCC passed rules to make phone calls from prison cheaper, to help keep people connected to their families.

Trump's FCC has now blocked that change.

An incarcerated writer on what this means for people behind bars, in a must read, icymi: boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

After Social Security arbitrarily cut thousands of staff, the only way to “fix” anything is moving them from one critical area to another—most recently, abruptly shifting 1K staff from local offices to the 800 number.

But it’s not a real fix at all…it only creates new problems.

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It’s ugly and it’s deadly. But hey, as long as the rich get richer, right?

The Social Security Administration put out a statement celebrating a bill that would lead to faster insolvency of the Social Security Trust Fund

A disgraceful story. The absolute disregard and hostility the power centers of our country exhibit towards young people is part of the story of this time.

And the NYT caught the car on affirmative action. So now begins the process of retroactively excavating race-conscious admissions. Awful.

Also: the OBBBA would accelerate both Social Security & Medicare's trust fund reserve depletion by a year.

They are touching Social Security, Medicare, AND Medicaid.

www.crfb.org/blogs/obbba-...

As Lily, 24, said: "There could be a time in my life where I have to make the decision between staying home to care for my daughter when she is sick and making money to put a roof over her head and food in her mouth.”

Pssst . . . it costs about the same amount to shore up Social Security's finances as it does to make the Trump tax cuts permanent.

But Congressional Republicans are on the verge of shoveling trillions at the wealthiest, while leaving a shortfall in the program we ALL need and love.

Women already do 2/3 of the unpaid care in the US, equating to $683 billion a year in unpaid care work. infogram.com/1pdd7xxy9p5x...

New @americanprogress.bsky.social data: half of LGBTQI+ people have called on chosen family for care, along with a third of non-LGBTQI+ people. We need #PaidLeaveForAll that includes all families.

More from @mollyww.bsky.social www.americanprogress.org/article/lgbt...

New for @teenvogue.com: Republicans love to talk about how much they care about the American worker, but the Trump admin’s anti-worker, anti-regulatory, anti-science agenda is putting millions of workers in danger—and more of them are going to die because of it www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...

This is my favorite stat: 50% of us called on chosen family for support. Our communities are strong and keep us going. 💜🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💜

@mollyww.bsky.social latest look at caregiving and leave for LGBTQI+ folks is a must-read today. www.americanprogress.org/article/lgbt...

New survey data shows LGBTQI+ people are more likely to take time off work for health or caregiving needs than non-LGBTQI+ people, despite being less likely to work in ways that provide paid leave. My latest for @americanprogress.bsky.social www.americanprogress.org/article/lgbt...

Shouldn’t the NY Times headline note that this new policy breaks the law?