Guest Blog

Our Guest Blog today is from Allison Kasic Director of Campus Programs at the Independent Women's Forum

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Last week, the Independent Women's Forum released a new publication, Social Insecurity,authored by yours truly.

The goal of the paper was to package all the great Social Security research that is out there into an easy to read and enjoyable publication for college students.  As Chaz notes below, it is full of pop culture references.

IWF has a long history of putting out research on how SS reform would benefit women.  I wanted to use this new publication to show how young workers stand to benefit from reform.  Sadly, it's hard to find a voice of reason on most college campuses about SS reform (which is a good reason for you to start an S4 chapter on your campus if you haven't already).  Check out this example from my paper:

At my alma mater, Bucknell University, the economics department went so far as to say that there wasn't a problem with the Social Security system.  The department brought Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research to campus to deflate the scare stories about Social Security.  All students in entry-level economics a required class for several majors were either offered extra credit or required to attend the lecture.  The same month that Baker spoke, the Bucknell University Conservatives Club sponsored a town hall meeting with Senator Rick Santorum on Social Security reform. Needless to say, Senator Santorum's visit took place with no support from the economics department.

If you read the resistance to the solution section of the paper, you'll note that there are a lot of people working very hard to make sure that you and I are stuck with a Social Security system that is a ticking time bomb of failure.  That's all the more reason for you to educate yourself about Social Security reform, tell all your friends, and take action to push for reform today.  Our generation can't afford to wait each day the problem only gets worse.

Social Insecurity is available on the IWF website here.