Sentence examples for lump social from inspiring English sources

Campaign operatives lump social media impersonation into three categories — what is fine, what straddles the line and what is indefensible.

There, some conservatives had hoped to lump Social Security with Medicare and Medicaid to make the retirement programme for the elderly part of the cost-cutting agenda.

Outrageously, politicians routinely ignore the clear legal prohibition and lump Social Security's benefits together with general federal expenditures, and its premiums and investment income with receipts from the income tax and other federal taxes.

Mr. Snyder calculated the benefits to this soldier's wife and children: LUMP SUMS: Social Security death benefit: $255 Military death gratuity: $100,000 Military life insurance: $400,000 TOTAL: $500,255 POTENTIAL MONEY FOR COLLEGE (paid while they attend): $199,602 SOCIAL SECURITY, SURVIVOR BENEFITS (total over lifetimes): $1.24 million This assumes his wife will live to age 80.

The most basic flaw in Peterson's analysis is that he tends to lump together Social Security and Medicare, and present them as a single, all-enveloping crisis, when they are actually two different programs that are financed separately and have their own distinct problems.

We don't give people a lump sum social security check at retirement.

For example, under current law, someone who finds out he has a terminal illness at 68 can collect a lump sum Social Security check for the benefits he suspended during the past two years.

Put more colloquially, perceptual "lumping together" prompts social "lumping together".

The weight lifter Holley Mangold took some lumps on social media for her size — one online commenter said, "She's a beast!" — prompting an article from the Reuters news agency this week that bore the headline, "Fat?

Why would he lump recipients of Social Security, veterans, students and low-wage earners — many of whom have voted Republican in the past — in with welfare recipients?

We need to be careful not to lump together distinct social phenomena.