So I just got off the bloggers call with Maria Shriver and John Podesta (EEK!) about “The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything” found here and am going to rattle off about it both here and at Care2.  There was a lot of the usual “women need to support each other” soft-policy work going on, but what struck me the most is the sheer volume of data compiled by the Center for American Progress.  Plenty for a wonk like me to get dirty with.

And on tomorrow’s agenda–follow-up work with the FISA and Patriot Act folks.  This is really starting to get fun.

For now, I’ll leave with this- with the employment landscape shifting as radically as Shriver and CAP claim, is it enough to try and simply enforce or amend the current social policy, or is it time to scrap the old and create a new social framework?  Other than legislative inertia, should we amend the Social Security Act so that older women actually receive the benefits they should, or recognize that the first safety net was born in a different era?  After this call, I’m leaning toward the latter.  But that is also because I’m prone to overreaching.