Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.

There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.

For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment.

The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.

Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.

Latinos are disproportionately more likely to be injured on the job than other ethnic groups.

We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.