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A bill that would end a 40-year Social Security penalty for public servants like teachers, firefighters, police and their spouses cleared the U.S. House Tuesday night, a signature win for outgoing ...
The Social Security Administration's press office provided comments after the initial publication of this story, stating that "state and local government employers are required to disclose ...
The WEP impacts about 2 million Social Security beneficiaries and the GPO nearly 800,000 retirees. Various forms of the measure have been introduced over the years, but like many legislative ...
The anti-death penalty movement began to pick up pace in the 1830s and many Americans called for abolition of the death penalty. Anti-death penalty sentiment rose as a result of the Jacksonian era, which condemned gallows and advocated for better treatment of orphans, criminals, poor people, and the mentally ill.
Three states abolished the death penalty for murder during the 19th century: Michigan (which Only executed 1 prisoner and is the first government in the English-speaking world to abolish capital punishment) [38] in 1847, Wisconsin in 1853, and Maine in 1887.
Death penalty opponents consider it "inhumane", [138] criticize it for its irreversibility, [139] and assert that it is ineffective as a deterrent against crime, [140] pointing to several studies which show it has little deterring effect on crime [141] (though this point is controversial as studies have conflicted in their conclusions on the ...
The death penalty is sought in only a fraction of murder cases, and it is often doled out capriciously. The National Academy of Sciences concludes that its role as a deterrent is ambiguous.
Several effects came together in the years following the 1972 amendments which rapidly changed the outlook on Social Security's long-term financial picture from positive to problematic. By the 1970s, the phase-in period, during which workers were paying taxes but few were collecting benefits, was largely over, and the ratio of elderly ...