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Social Security

Social Security is critically important to women, and especially to women of color. Without it, about half of all women 65 and older would be poor. It also provides valuable disability and life insurance protections to workers and their families.

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Testimony, “Improving Retirement Security”

Testimony, “Gaps in Retirement Savings Based on Race, Ethnicity and Gender”

Testimony, Social Security 2100: The Fierce Urgency of Now

Supporting the Economic Security and Health of Older Women of Color

By the Numbers: Data on Key Programs for the Well-Being of Women & Their Families

A lifetime worth of benefits report cover

A Lifetime’s Worth of Benefits: The Effects of Affordable, High-Quality Child Care on Family Income, the Gender Earnings Gap, and Women’s Retirement Security

Testimony, Save Our Social Security Now

Senate Republicans Are Trying to Cut All the Benefits in the Next COVID Package.

Stop Coming for Social Security

Expanding Income Supports in Response to COVID-19

Social Security Is Going Strong, So Let’s Not Screw That Up

NWLC Comments to the Social Security Administration on Continuing Disability Reviews

Women and Social Security

On Social Security’s 83 Birthday, Let’s Recognize That It’s More Important Than Ever

By The Numbers: Data on Key Programs for the Well-Being of Women & Their Families

2018 Social Security Trustees Report: No Need to Panic

It’s National Social Security Month!

As If We Needed It, Evidence that Delaying Social Security to Get Paid Leave Benefits Is A Terrible Idea

Today’s a Reminder of How Important Social Security Is to Women

Donald Trump giving a press conference.

The Trump Budget: Ineffective, Inefficient, and Just Plain Terrible for Women and Families

Census Data Reaffirms Critical Anti-Poverty Impact of Social Security

Rep. Johnson’s Plan to Cut Social Security Would Have Serious Consequences for Women

2016 Social Security Trustees’ Report Shows a Large – and Growing! – Surplus

President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2017 Budget: Investing in Women and Their Families