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Critics: Privatizing Social Security Hurts Women

from eligibility for supplemental benefits in order to remove a disincentive to save and encourage private savings.Provide family service credit. Recognize the unpaid family work that prevents millions of women from working at higher-paying jobs, allowing them to receive more retirement income.Instead of using the nation"s current budget surplus to fund a tax cut, surpluses could finance repairs to a system that is fundamentally stable but not without problems, speakers said. Dr. Hill suggested that a portion of the surplus might be invested in high-yield earnings instruments, balanced by safer investments to hedge some of the associated risk. Ann Moline is a free-lance writer based in Washington, D.C. For more information, visit:Women and Social Security:http://www.women4socialsecurity.org/ Beth Kobliner:http://www.kobliner.com/ Center for Budget and Policy Priorities:http://www.cbpp.org/ Institute for Women"s Policy Research:http://www.iwpr.org/ Our StoryA special daily feature of Women"s Enews during Women"s History Month 1870. Women in the sparsely populated state of Wyoming became the first to gain suffrage. Historian Eleanor Flexner writes that the elections of that year and the next "confounded all predictions of disaster." Flexner adds: "Women did not, as prophesied, descend upon the polling places in hordes and upset the established order. Uncertainty and fear held many back, and others simply did not care to exercise their newly acquired right. Those who did so came through the ordeal unscathed."

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