Day: December 15, 2024

The Senate is pushing toward a vote on legislation that would provide full Social Security benefits to millions of people

The American public is closely divided on the outlook for Donald Trump’s second term, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, with 52% of adults expressing positive feelings, and 48% responding negatively.

In 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt created Social Security, an insurance contract between Americans and the federal government that pays out on certain life events. As a financial safety net, social security protects Americans from what Roosevelt called the “hazards and vicissitudes of life.” Roosevelt’s plan has been vital to the American peopl…