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Elizabeth Warren: pensions for middle class workers

Elizabeth Warren: pensions for middle class workers

By Bob Plain on April 30, 2013

Are pensions coming back into fashion? Perhaps, said progressive hero Senator Elizabeth Warren who was in Providence last night at a fundraiser at the Convention Center for her Senate Banking Committee colleague Jack Reed. Hailed as one of Wall Street’s worst nightmares and the intellectual godmother of Occupy Wall Street, Warren told me that public [...]

Posted in Congress, Featured, Pensions | Tagged Congress, Elizabeth Warren, jack reed, middle class, pensions, retirement security | 5 Responses

Gina Raimondo, Linc Chafee and Allan Fung, at an event to launch the campaign to cut pensions in 2011. Photo by Bob Plain, courtesy of WPRO.

Progressives Should Care About Pension Security

By Bob Walsh on July 3, 2012

I suspect if that if named a United States Senator tomorrow (might as well give the right-wing immediate heartburn at that prospect) my committee assignment of choice would be the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the so-called, and when run correctly, aptly named HELP Committee. Putting four important issues so remarkably interlinked [...]

Posted in Economy, Featured, Labor, Pensions, Politics | Tagged bob walsh, Gina Raimondo, linc chafee, organized labor, pension, retirement security, Rhode Island | 13 Responses

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