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This release contains White House Exchange Mail records dated January 1998 to October 1999. Most of it is a transcript of a January 29, 1998 press briefing by Press Secretary Mike McCurry covering Iraq, Iran, the budget and the Lewinsky inquiry, plus a 1998 presidential speech. An October 19, 1999 email among Transnational Threats staff forwards a Florida Today article on how scientists expect alien contact would spark a media frenzy rather than a cover-up, describing the 1989 SETI detection protocol.
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354980ED.FIN Page 5 of 8 http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd009/aprl998/354980ed.html 1/5/2010 Since its enactment over 60 years ago, Social Security has changed the face of America. When President Roosevelt signed the bill creating the Social Security system, most seniors in America were poor. A typical elderly person sei Now, there's something else I want to say about this. Even though most seniors need other sources of income in addition to Social Security to maintain ; comfortable lifestyle: if Social Security did not exist, today half of all American retirees would be living in poverty -- 60 percent of all women Fifteen million American seniors have been lifted out of poverty through the Social Security system. Today the system is sound, but the demographic crisis looming is clear. The baby boomers - 76 million of us - are now looking ahead to their retirement. And people, clearly, are living longer, so that by 2030, there will be twit as many elderly as there are today. All these trends will impose heavy strains on the system. Let's look at th next chart here. You can see that in 1960, which wasn't so long ago, thei were over five people working for every person drawing Social Security. In 1997, last year, there were over three people — 3.3 people — working for every person drawing. But by 2030, because of the increasing average age, if present birthrates and immigration rates and retirement rates continue, there wil be only two people working for every person drawing Social Security. to act with care as we make needed repairs to the program occasioned by t huge growth in retirees. letter to FDR begging him to eliminate "the stark terror of penniless old age." Since then, the elderly poverty rate has dropped sharply. You can look here and see that in 1959 the poverty rate was over 35 percent for retirees. In 197 it had dropped to 15.2 percent. In 1996, the poverty rate is down below 11 percent.
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