Outstanding student debt is $1.2 trillion--more than credit card debt, more than auto loans.
We have to have the courage to act.
That is why we should consider proposals to expand Social Security.
We need to think more holistically about how we actually change our culture of debt, consumption, savings, housing policy, the tax code.
Is it the right public policy that to ultimately end up in this place, that low-wage, lifetime workers--
We should consider both angles.
I am for that, but again, I want to make sure we protect those at the low-wage end who, again, have worked in blue-collar jobs their whole l...
Would you support--and I do not know if Senator Rubio has thought it through in this direction.
The cash benefit is still far too low for a long-time, low-income worker, and that is clearly a big part of the problem here.
I think surely the great majority of the public understands the concept of social insurance.
While a number of us here want to see a more redistributive, a more progressive Social Security system, it does lead us to not want to means...