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  • DHS warns of vulnerability exposing employee social security numbers


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    The Department of Homeland Security issued a warning to its employees this week, saying it was alerted to a vendor vulnerability that could have exposed social security numbers. The vendor, which DHS does not disclose in its alert, deals with background check information. It helps the investigation process, and ...
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  • Busted: Microsoft intercepts, decrypts, and reads your Skype messages


    VentureBeat — Authority Authority: 161
    Skype used to be what you would use to send secure, encrypted, and untraceable messages to friends, family, and business associates all over the world. Not any more. According to a test by Ars Technica , Microsoft is intercepting, decrypting, and reading at least some Skype messages — to the point where URLs ...
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  • Senior poverty is much worse than you think


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    Senior citizens rally on the Capitol steps in Washington on July 22, 1981, to denounce President Ronald Reagan’s proposed cuts in their Social Security benefits. (AP) One frequent knock on the official poverty rate is that it generally excluded income from some government programs like food stamps and the Earned ...
    5 days ago

  • Rubio’s Immigration Bill “Grants” Federal Benefits to “Millions” of Illegal Immigrants


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    By JAVIER MANJARRES It appears that if the immigration reform bill proposed by the U.S. Senate’s bipartisan ‘Gang of Eight’ passes, those illegal immigrants who would then be eligible to work in the United States, would also be eligible to receive the earned income tax credit (EITC). Texas Senator Jeff ...
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  • Real Problems are Best Resolved by the Audacious—not the Pusillanimous


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    Doing the unthinkable is often easier than merely thinking about what cannot be done. When faced with seemingly intractable complex problems , most leaders, if they act at all, seek a solution by applying complicated, tedious, timid and incremental actions. More often than not, this approach not only fails to ...
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  • Tennessee Consumer Affairs says Don’t fall prey to Telemarketing Scams


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    Nashville, TN – You’ve just settled down to eat dinner, when the phone rings. The voice on the line addresses you by name and says your credit history or career qualifies you for a special investment opportunity. Or maybe they want you to give to a charity. All you have to do, you’re told, is supply the caller ...
    5 days ago

  • Who Does Wall Street Own In Congress?


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    The Grayson Takano No Cuts letter is the gold standard The House doesnt usually stay in sessions Fridays, let alone take serious votes, but this past Friday, as we mentioned yesterday , Boehner and Cantor kept the Members in town to repay a promise they had made to their Wall Street masters to further weaken ...
    5 days ago

  • Who Does Wall Street Own In Congress?


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    The Grayson Takano No Cuts letter is the gold standard The House doesnt usually stay in sessions Fridays, let alone take serious votes, but this past Friday, as we mentioned yesterday , Boehner and Cantor kept the Members in town to repay a promise they had made to their Wall Street masters to further weaken ...
    6 days ago

  • Legitimate reasons to be outraged at Obama (Benghazi and IRS not among them)


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    Legitimate reasons to be outraged at Obama (Benghazi and IRS not among them) If you’ve been following mainstream media (or just Fox News) lately, you’re probably aware of the recent increase in Republican ire. While it’d be legitimate to ask “When are the Republicans not full of ire, especially with respect ...
    1 week ago

  • Alliance Tele-Town Hall with Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA)


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    As you may have heard, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) recently introduced the Strengthen Social Security Act, S.567. Instead of a cold, calculated  benefit cut like the chained CPI, this bill would actually increase Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments(COLA) by an average of $800! On Monday, May 20th at 3:30 EST, ...
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  • Robert Samuelson—Can we Get Real About the deficit problem we Face?


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    Can we get real? For starters, $642 billion is serious money, and despite the modest improvements of the latest CBO report, the basic trends in federal finances remain the same. From 2014 to 2023, the government will spend $6 trillion more than it collects in taxes. The budget never comes close to balancing. Expanding ...
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  • Henry Waxman will support Chained CPI in trade for "things we want"


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  • I Have a Burn Injury That Is Taking a Long Time to Heal: Can I Get Disability?


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    05/09/2013 // Wright Disability Firm // Wright & Wright // (press release) Burn injuries can include a range of health complications for those who have suffered them. Depending on the extent of the burn, whether it is first, second, or third degree, major scarring and serious infections can have long-term ...
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  • A Scandal a Day and Barack Obama Just Will Not Go Away


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    The scandal du jour on Thursday - the U.S. Marshall’s Service losing a couple terrorists in the witness protection program – would be laughable if it wasn’t downright maddening. How in the hell could a government agency lose track of people... Read More ›
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  • GOP Raps Dems For IRS Union Cash


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    WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking maximum political gain from the string of controversies swirling around the White House, Republicans are on the attack against Democratic lawmakers who accepted donations from the union that represents Internal Revenue Service employees. But here’s the rub: About a dozen current and ...
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  • Are Social Security Disability Benefits Available For Soldiers And Veterans?


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    May 17, 2013 Each day in the United States, soldiers return home from service overseas with injuries and conditions that leave them unable to work. This raises numerous questions as to what benefits they may qualify for through  Social Security Disability programs. According to an article from  The Chief ...
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  • New Evidence That We Need To Strengthen Social Security, Not Weaken It


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    According to a Pew Charitable Trusts study released Thursday, baby boomers and Generation Xers are increasingly unlikely to be able to afford the costs of retirement, making critical the need for a strong Social Security program to bridge this income gap. Instead of weakening the social safety net by using the ...
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  • What Are Back Benefits For Social Security Disability (SSD) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI)?


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    Back benefits can be one of the more confusing aspects of Social Security disability for claimants. Although back benefits are confusing, they are also extremely important to the claimant because these benefits can reach to the tens of thousands of dollars. Back benefits accrue from the date of the application in ...
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  • Opening NRO Account


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    Can someone share your experience which bank is fastest for opening an NRO Account jointly with a Resident Indian in Bangalore. I need to open the account (and have cheque book for my Indian counterpart) ASAP (as they say in project "need to get it done yesterday"). Called up HDFC Bank and the m*ron says you ...
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  • Are Millennials Ready for Social Security Reform?


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    Government is very good at crowding out private sector activities.  When government borrows, it can cause interest rates to rise and crowd out more productive private sector borrowing.  When government expands welfare programs to help the hungry and homeless, the effect is the crowding out of individual giving to ...
    1 week ago

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