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GuyC59

On this Day in Social Security History:

#SocialSecurityat90
#StrongerTogether

5/2/1970 The first Black Lung benefits were paid.
- Black Lung Benefits Program Description and Legislative Historyhttps://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/supplement/2016/blacklung.html
- Ed Tall Oral History Interview the Black Lung benefits program ssa.gov/history/tall.html

5/2/1997 The FDR Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
nps.gov/places/franklin-delano

5/2/2001 President Bush announced the appointment of a 16-member bi-partisan Commission on Social Security. The Commission has been tasked to develop a proposal to modernize and restore financial soundness to Social Security, according to the principles the President announced in his State-of-the-Union Address.
ssa.gov/history/reports/pcsss/

More Social Security history: lnkd.in/e7aYDjRe & #SSAHistGWC

#SocialSecurity #History #Disability #Retirement #Medicare #Unemployment #insurance #heatlhcare #NewDeal #OTD #SSDI #OASDI #equity #justice Social Security Administration #BlackLung

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Peter Riley

🎵 Is that the wind you hear howlin’ through the holler?
Or the ghost of a widow that cries?
For every man that died for a coal company dollar
A lung full of dust and a heart full of lies”
—“It’s About Blood,” Steve Earle (2020) 🎶
#BlackLung epidemic is tearing through #Appalachia, killing miners as young as their 30s. And the Trump admin just defunded #NIOSH, the worker health agency that’s been tracking it.

2023
inthesetimes.com/article/coal-

In These TimesThe Young Miners Dying of “An Old Man’s Disease”Black lung is completely preventable. And it's on the rise again.
#fossilFuels#mineworkers
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Nonilex

Get ready for #BlackLung

#Trump set to sign #ExecutiveOrders to boost #US #coal

When burned, coal releases more of the main #GreenhouseGas carbon dioxide than any other #FossilFuel. It also emits criteria #pollutants that are blamed for #lung & #heart illnesses. Much of its use has declined on #regulations from #Democrats, including President Joe #Biden.

#Climate #ClimateCrisis #environment #PublicHealth #law
reuters.com/business/energy/tr

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Nonilex

In the yrs that followed, judges cited #Chevron in upholding rules that #protect #EndangeredSpecies, speed up the approval process for new cellphone towers & grant benefits to #CoalMiners suffering from #BlackLung.

The #Koch network has challenged Chevron in the courts & its #lobbyists have pushed #Congress to pass a #law nullifying the decision. It has also provided millions of $$ in #grants to #law professors making the case to #overturn it.

#ClarenceThomas#SCOTUS
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