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Abe Bortz, historian, teacher, book reviewer
Abe Bortz, the Social Security Administration's first historian and a voracious book collector and reviewer, died Tuesday of lymphoma at his home in Pikesville. He was 93. Dr. Bortz grew up in Cincinnati, graduating from high school there in 1937 and...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Book, Lymphoma, World War II (1939-1945), University of Cincinnati
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Retirement insecurity
While Congress tosses all kinds of scenarios around about the future of retirement benefits like Medicare or Social Security — while doing absolutely nothing about it — we shouldn't be terribly surprised that real people are feeling as...Tags: Government Health Care, Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy, Stock Market, Retirement
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Mayor's budget asks too much of fire fighters
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has proposed additional cuts to the Baltimore City Fire Department in her proposed budget ("'Tough choices' in city budget plan," March 21). The budget includes a proposed schedule change for the men and women who run into...
Tags: Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy, Budgets and Budgeting, Health Insurance Cost, Fires
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Agencies in Maryland dodge furloughs — for now
A month after across-the-board federal spending cuts began, there are signs that one of the most troubling potential consequences for Maryland — the furloughing of federal employees — might not be as widespread as initially feared. But the...
Tags: Government Debt, U.S. Congress, Interior Policy, Layoffs and Downsizing, White House
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Daniel D. Holtzman, analyst
Daniel David Holtzman, a retired Social Security analyst and World War II veteran, died of a heart attack March 8 at Sinai Hospital. The Owings Mills resident was 92.
Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Jacob Holtzman, a maker of straw and felt hats,...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Heart Attack
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City school police seek better benefits for injuries in line of duty
When city school police officer Joseph Baribeault attempted to arrest two combative students at the old Greenspring Middle School, he ended up injured at the bottom of two flights of concrete stairs. Even though the city has acknowledged his disabilities...
Tags: Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy, Law Enforcement, Retirement, 401K
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Ehrlich is wrong about Obama and the Social Security disability program
As someone who has made a career advocating on behalf of those that depend on Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income benefits, I was disheartened to read Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s column, "Disability insurance entitlement explodes under...
Tags: Health Insurance, Physical Disabilities, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Employees, Insurance
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Sequester debate hides the cold facts of our budget crisis
Federal deficits are too large, and mounting national debt threatens future generations. But as Democrats and Republicans squabble over the mandatory spending cuts known as sequestration that went into effect Friday night, they are failing to face the...
Tags: National Government, Economic Indicator, Private Health Care, John Boehner, Health Insurance Cost
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Lawmakers look past cuts to next budget battle
Days after the Obama administration threatened widespread furloughs of government employees, one of Maryland's largest federal agencies, the Social Security Administration, said it might shoulder across-the-board spending cuts without sending any of its...
Tags: Business, Government Debt, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Congress, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Disability insurance entitlement explodes under Obama
Those of you paying attention have noticed that the Obama administration is actually doing what it promised: transforming America into a gigantic welfare state. And there are plenty of takers willing to cash in on it and "get mine." Numbers don't lie....
Tags: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Health Insurance, Physical Disabilities, U.S. Congress, Trials
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Social Security Administration will avoid furloughs, union says
WASHINGTON -- Officials at the Woodlawn-based Social Security Administration informed employees they do not anticipate furloughs when across-the-board federal budget cuts go into effect, the union that represents many of those workers said Thursday. The...
Tags: Government Debt, Benjamin L. Cardin, Employees, Layoffs and Downsizing, Internal Revenue Service
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Immigration reform and entitlement reform go together
I was born in 1946, just when the boomer wave began. Bill Clinton was born that year, too. So was George W. Bush, as was Laura Bush. And then the next year, Hillary Rodham. And soon Newt Gingrich (known as "Newty" as a boy). And, also in 1946, Cher....
Tags: George W. Bush, World War II (1939-1945), Retirement, Migration, Employment
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