Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty. — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement. — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net… — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another… — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause… — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers. — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act. — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind… — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an… — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor. — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and… — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that… — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check. — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record. — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
