NBCSL urges all State Legislators to know what your State have done to implement major election reform under Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). This is America's 21st Century opportunity to strengthen Democracy at home and help remove barriers to voting that have suppressed turnout among African and Asian Americans and Hispanics/Latinos. Make certain this landmark legislation is working for America.
Did you know that only 29 percent of African American adults surveyed in an October-November 2005 Joint Center poll expected Social Security to be their major source of retirement income? Fewer of them (20 percent) expected an employer-sponsored pension plan to be their major source of income, and more (42 percent) expected that their major source of income would be their own retirement savings and investments.
Source: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, National Opinion Poll of African American Adults About Social Security and Wealth, 2005.