The Case for Expanding Social Security
Deconstructed
The Intercept
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🗓️ 19 February 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The proposed Social Security 2100 Act would bolster the nearly century-old social insurance program through additions like caregiver credits and increased minimum benefits. Connecticut Rep. John Larson, the architect of the plan, joins Intercept reporters Ryan Grim and Jon Schwarz to discuss why he thinks an expansion of Social Security is overdue.
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| 0:00.0 | Yes, we are big social security partisans and I'd love to talk about it in depth. |
| 0:07.7 | So get ready. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm ready. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm a big partisan social security advocate myself. |
| 0:15.6 | We could be one step closer to better social security after lawmakers unveiled with their |
| 0:19.8 | calling Social Security 2100. |
| 0:22.4 | We are hostile opponents of elderly poverty. |
| 0:26.1 | Exactly. |
| 0:27.1 | Very controversial position, apparently. |
| 0:29.2 | Chairman of the Social Security Subcommittee, Connecticut Congressman John Larson says that's |
| 0:34.2 | why he's introduced the Social Security 2100 Act to increase payments to older Americans. |
| 0:41.0 | So I'm joined here by two Johns, Congressman John Larson, who represents Hartford, Connecticut, |
| 0:47.1 | and areas around that. |
| 0:48.1 | Is that about accurately described your district? |
| 0:51.5 | That is. |
| 0:52.5 | It's Hartford and the 27 towns around it. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm also joined by John Schwartz, my colleague at the Intercept, and we're talking about |
| 1:01.6 | Social Security. |
| 1:02.6 | I wanted to start with a story that I actually wrote about with Arthur Delaney about 10 years |
| 1:09.5 | ago in an article in Beckham Huffington Post. |
| 1:13.8 | And he had dug out of the Historical Society of Washington's archives. |
| 1:19.5 | This fascinating, but very revealing story about the way that elderly poverty existed pre-social |
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