How Immigrants Can Actually Help Save Social Security

How Immigrants Can Actually Help Save Social Security

Republished with permission from OtherWords, by Mitchell Zimmerman Social Security is all that stands between millions of Americans and poverty in old age. Two-thirds of seniors would lose most of their income if Social Security payments ceased. One in seven have essentially no other income—and if their already modest Social Security checks are reduced, they’ll go hungry. But Social Security is in trouble. The number of people reaching retiremen…

To speak of social security implies referring to a fundamental human right that everyone has and that allows him to attend to needs arising from contingencies caused by illness, old age, disability, risks of work, death, unemployment, etc., and that, precisely, results in practice not only the lack of availability or significant reduction of income for the person and his family nucleus, but also compromises his well-being and even his own surviv…