How do we modernize the benefit so that a $10-, $11-, $12-an-hour worker... meets their needs?
We need to make sure they have access to a retirement account in some way, shape, or form.
We have to have the courage to act.
And with the erosion of unions and the minimum wage together, we lead the world in the creation of low-wage jobs.
To me, it is a moral issue and an economic issue.
We need to think more holistically about how we actually change our culture of debt, consumption, savings, housing polic...
Is it the right public policy that to ultimately end up in this place, that low-wage, lifetime workers--
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 ...
Would you support--and I do not know if Senator Rubio has thought it through in this direction.
That does nothing to redistribute money to lower levels; it just, quote-unquote, 'fixes Social Security' by taking a lit...
We should consider both angles.