Women's movement says raise SS benefits, don't cut them!

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Length: 0:28:42
Uploaded: 7 Jan, 2013

Recording Date: 7 Jan, 2013
Recording Location: Washington DC and Vancouver BC
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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Program Title: WINGS #37-12 Social Security USA
Description: The original act establishing Social Security was shepherded by Frances Perkins, the first woman US cabinet member. Since then, women have taken great interest in the management of this form of retirement insurance. US women's groups are a new campaign for improvements. Hartmann explains how the plan is funded and how it can remain solvent.

Host(s): Frieda Werden
Featured Speakers/Guests: Frances Perkins, former US Secretary of Labor; Dr. Heidi Hartmann, economist, founder and President of the Institute for Women's Policy Research in Washington DC.

Credits: Interview, narration and final production by Frieda Werden; interview editing by Bea Bernhausen. Excerpt of Frances Perkins from http://archive.org/details/gov.ssa.perkins.1960

Comments: Institute for Women's Policy Research website: www.iwpr.org/