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Social Security still popular and for good reasons

By Kim Loop, AUG 14, 2015

Statistics tell a powerful story. Consider that 36 percent of Texas residents age 65 or older depend on Social Security as their only source of income. Or that more than four of 10 in this age group would live in poverty were it not for Social Security.

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