
We ought to change that to 18. We ought to have workplace retirement plans pick up 18, 19, and 20 year olds that are working.
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We ought to change that to 18. We ought to have workplace retirement plans pick up 18, 19, and 20 year olds that are working.

The truth is that we now have a retirement crisis in America that demands our immediate attention.

Incredibly, and this really is quite incredible, one out of every four senior citizens in America are trying to live on an income of less than $15,000 a year.

Legislation we have proposed would lift the cap on Social Security starting at $200,000.

I would hope that we would agree that is simply unacceptable and that has got to change.

If corporations choose not to offer a retirement plan, they must give workers the option of contributing to a Federal pension plan.

for some reason that I do not fully understand, it always appears to me that the more important the issue, the less it gets discussed here in the Congress and in the media--more important, less discussion. And today I want to say a few…

workers are 15 times more likely to save for retirement if they do so via payroll deduction and 20 times more likely to save if access to a workplace retirement plan is automatic.

We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major nation.

Saving the Affordable Care Act happened by one vote. The American Rescue Plan, 2 million workers' pensions happened by one vote.

As a Nation, we have more income and wealth inequality today than we ever had in the history of America.

We must expand Social Security, not cut Social Security as many of my colleagues in Congress would have us do.

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