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2008 Presidential Candidate Legislation: changing Social Security disproportionately affect women
Source: H.RES.128
RESOLUTION: Recognizing the unique effects that proposals to reform Social Security may have on women.
Whereas the Social Security benefit structure is of particular importance to low-earning wives and widows, with 63% of women beneficiaries aged 62 or older receiving wife's or widow's benefits;
Whereas 3/4 of unmarried and widowed elderly women rely on Social Security for over half of their income;
Whereas without Social Security benefits, the elderly poverty rate among women would have been 52.2% and among widows would have been 60.6%;
Whereas women tend to live longer and tend to have lower lifetime earnings than men do;
Whereas women spend an average of 11.5 years out of their careers to care for their families, and are more likely to work part-time than full-time; and
Whereas during these years in the workforce, women earn an average of 70 cents for every dollar men earn:
Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives recognizes the unique obstacles that women face in ensuring retirement security and survivor and disability stability and the essential role that Social Security plays in guaranteeing inflation-protected financial stability for women throughout their entire old age, and it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the Congress and the President should take these factors into account when considering proposals to reform the Social Security system.
Participating counts on VoteMatch question 6.
Question 6: Privatize Social Security
Scores: -2=Strongly oppose; -1=Oppose; 0=neutral; 1=Support; 2=Strongly support.
Topic: Social Security
Headline: Changing Social Security disproportionately affects women
(Score: -1)
Headline 2: Changing Social Security disproportionately affects women
(Score: -1)
