Laura Haltzel

Laura Haltzel is a Social Security and retirement security expert working as a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation. The views expressed here are her own.

[Max Ghenis @MaxGhenis]

A single person with a disability and no earnings takes home $14,411 in 2024

A single person without a disability earning $30k takes home $25,920

Separate, they take home $14,411 + $25,920 = $40,331

If they marry, they take home $31,862

$8,469 marriage penalty, or 21%

[Laura Haltzel @LHaltzel]

@Derek_a_Franks @Dewdropfairy2 Perhaps a coalition of immune compromised (aka disabled) people that the CDC has decided are disposable?

[Laura Haltzel @LHaltzel]

@Billius27 This move is yet another hurdle for those of us who need to work remotely due to underlying medical conditions, but whose employers will not accommodate them. The CDC’s response to thousands of us caught between choosing either our livelihood or our lives is to make it worse!

[Laura Haltzel @LHaltzel]

@CupcakeJones8 @outbreakupdates In many places, there already aren't. We're already facing a huge demand for aging care in the coming years and a serious lack of trained medical staff to care for them just due to demographics. Add the post-Covid effects, and we're truly doomed.

[Laura Haltzel @LHaltzel]

@1goodtern Agree. We don't measure because it would inconvenience people to behave differently - period. I live by the weather as I can only see people for meals outside due to immune issues. Most of my events are cancelled and I'm now isolated.

[Laura Haltzel @LHaltzel]

@CovidintheChart This makes me want to cry. We stopped publicly testing and measuring COVID infections so now everyone thinks it is gone. It hit my mother's assisted living facility and they didn't require masks or inform those who had dined (by requirement) with the infected. She is positive.

[Laura Haltzel @LHaltzel]

@polybioRF Glad to see so many studies of different elements of post-COVID impacts. I don't see any that address autonomic respiratory effects of Long COVID (i.e., no impulse to breathe, high CO2, low O2 during sleep study w/bipap). Anyone aware of any?

[Laura Haltzel @LHaltzel]

@hollaatmeMD @JBsTwoCents I somehow doubt that the couples affected by the mistaken destruction of their embryos would have liked a total elimination of the very process they themselves needed to be the outcome of their case. Let's hear what they have to say.

[Laura Haltzel @LHaltzel]

@SadRobot1980 We all give each other that knowing look and a slight nod of the head to recognize a fellow soldier in masks…..

[Laura Haltzel @LHaltzel]

@JulieKashen This sounds so much like my conversation with my then 6 year old trying to explain about Rosa Parks (following a visit to the exhibit in the Library of Congress) and segregation...

"What do you mean my friend XXX wouldn't have been allowed to go to school with me?"

[Laura Haltzel @LHaltzel]

A great new report from CAP: "Lower earnings during one’s working years translate into lower Social Security benefits, less ability to save for retirement, and, ultimately, higher risks of poverty and material hardships in old age." https://t.co/9fv43FlLyt

[Laura Haltzel @LHaltzel]

@yaneerbaryam I'm glad to hear at least one country's health facilities are taking this seriously! A mis amigos y familia en Espana, les mando mis abrazos y espero que todos queden sanos!

[Laura Haltzel @LHaltzel]

@oldfshndanne People doing the right thing shouldn't be punished. The schools can say what they want - they can provide him with work he can do from home when he feels better. But if he goes in and infects other kids and families and STAFF, that eliminates school for all.

[Laura Haltzel @LHaltzel]

@dysclinic @reshmakapadia I was infected in July 2022. At first I didn’t think it was bad. But after about a week (and being on Paxlovid), I would wake gasping for air. It was as if every time I fell asleep, my body forgot to breathe. I am on a bipap now with low O2 and high CO2 in sleep.Any hope for me?

[Laura Haltzel @LHaltzel]

@cal_bear_girl Where is this school?! None near me seem to do anything.

[Laura Haltzel @LHaltzel]

Meanwhile, the gap between corporate profits and the taxes they pay is widening. We have a corporate tax expenditure problem. A commission will not solve that—it will cut Social Security benefits and use the money to lower taxes for corporations, again./4
https://t.co/LwSYbq66Y9

[Laura Haltzel @LHaltzel]

Why can't I take deficit commission talk seriously? A fiscal commission has never been about the deficit, it's about paying for tax cuts on the backs of benefit cuts for vulnerable Americans. For evidence of how disingenuous the Republicans are on this issue, keep reading. /1

[Laura Haltzel @LHaltzel]

Over HALF of the very same Committee members sent a letter to the Speaker asking for an extension of certain business tax cuts from the 2017 TCJA before the year's end, which adds to the very deficit they bemoan. 3/ https://t.co/pjHe5nIH83

[Laura Haltzel @LHaltzel]

@CharmsYahoo @DavidJoffe64 What is Viralese exactly? From the US and never heard of it. Is it effective on non-Covid viruses as well?