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Students for Social Security
is a non-partisan non-profit group of current students and young
adults who are working to: (1) advance evidence based knowledge
concerning
the role of social insurance (including Social Security and Medicare)
as the foundation of economic and health security for all Americans
including elders, younger people with disabilities, survivors, women,
minorities, and all American wage earners and families; and (2) provide
public
information and education with the aim of increasing the number of
college and university conversations about social insurance as a
universal
human right. Students for Social Security is committed to the preservation
and improvement of social insurance programs.
 Students
for Social Security and Concerned
Scientists in Aging aim to spread the message of privatization's
negative effects to students as well as provide a presence in the
media for students who oppose privatizing Social Security. Of those
trying to express their opinions on this vital issue, students are
the least represented and the most affected. We have support from
AARP and National
Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and many
others have noted the importance of organizing students for this
cause. Things are moving fast on the student front and we hope to
use our sister organization to help network across campuses.
Check out our Reading
Resources page
The 2006
OASDI Trustees Report
A
Commentary on the Social Security Trustee's Annual Report from
the Century Foundation
Medicare
Prescription Drug Coverage Questions and Answers in Engligh,
Chinese, Russian, and Spanish a new resource from the University
of California San Francisco School of Pharmacy
See Implementing Medicare Part
D in California: A Scan of the Landscape funded by the
California Endowment
by Norman Fineman, PhD, Sheryl Goldberg, PhD, Walter Gomez, Lacey Huang Orsini,
Tiffany Martin, MA, Brooke Hollister, and Carroll Estes, PhD
DON'T FORGET OUR HISTORY: When thinking about
the importance of social insurance in the lives of all Americans,
let us not forget FDRs four freedoms: (1) freedom of speech and
expression;(2) freedom of every perosn to worship God in his
own way; (3) freedom from want; and (4) freedom
from fear. Click here to
see FDRs January 1941 Address to Congress.
Check out the National Academy of Social Insurance's Social
Insurance Sourcebook here.
Find information on Medicare Part D on the
Factsheets page.
Check out this shopping list developed
by David Grant at the Health Insurance Couneling and Advocacy Program
(HICAP). This list compares the price of the "top 100
drugs" under Part D insurance plans as compared with the price
in the retail marketplace.
Chile's
System No Model for the U.S.
While
Pensions Fall Short, CEOs Fly High
Companies are struggling and pension problems continue, yet top
executives are getting huge payouts.
To find valuable articles on Social Security and social insurance,
use the AgeLine
Database which includes abstracts of social gerontology and
aging-related articles, books, and reports.
CSA/SSS are embarking on a research project to examine how instructors
in higher education are teaching about social insurance in their
classrooms. Our research focuses on the question: What is the status
of social insurance (and programs like Social Security, Medicare,
and Medicaid that embody the principles therein) in the current
higher education curricula? We will focus on whether or not college
and university instructors of aging-related courses teach on the
topic of social insurance, and if so, what resources and teaching
strategies they employ, as well as what obstacles they face. We
recognize that one of the primary functions of both an undergraduate
and a graduate education is to provide students with the critical
thinking skill necessary to actively participate in the labor force
(as productive employees) and in civic life (as informed citizens).
Consequently, our project is situated within a broader set of questions
that interrogates the roles that higher education plays and the
responsibilities it undertakes in producing informed publics.
Check out this
video on the fight against privitizing Social Security and the
present state of the debate.
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