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Article: Gore to Make Social Security More Fair for Women
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- April 4, 2000
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PHILADELPHIA, April 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Exactly 65 years after
Franklin Roosevelt signed the law that created Social Security, Al
Gore announced today that he would make Social Security more fair
for women.
Gore would improve Social Security benefits for widows and the 8
million people, most of them women, who take time off from work to
raise children. Gore would also strengthen Social Security until at
least 2050. The centerpiece of Bush's agenda is an enormous $2.1
trillion tax scheme that leaves no resources for shoring up Social
Security for the future.
"Social Security is a lifeline for millions of American women,
but there are ways in which Social Security treats women unfairly," ...