Commentary AFL-CIO: Working Families Deserve Strong Social Security Program by Gary Kopycinski on August 14, 2015 Gary Kopycinski Author More in Commentary: Heteronormativity: Grappling with Straight Privilege March 24, 2026 Former Park Forest Mayor Ostenburg Implores Chicago Cardinal Cupich to Care for St. Irenaeus Property December 16, 2025 An Angel Now Guards Our Friends in Blue: Park Forest Mourns the Loss of #204, Detective Tim Jones December 4, 2025 Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 14, 2015. Happy Birthday Social Security. On today’s 80th anniversary of Social Security, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka made the following statement: