From MarketWatch | By Jeff Reeves ROCKVILLE, Md. — Staring at my wife’s annual tax documents this weekend, I couldn’t help getting fired up over what she paid into Social Security last year. When I pointed out the money sunk into the entitlement program — a 6.2% haircut on her modest salary — she simply …
AP publishes dishonest editorial about Social Security finances as news
From Alternet: The insidious ways that conservative narratives bleed into our mainstream economic discourse as objective truths is a dominant theme in my book, and this story by the Associated Press's Stephen Ohlemacher -- ostensibly a piece of reporting rather than opinion -- is one of the most egregious examples I've encountered. Check out the …
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Reuters: Obama lays down a marker on Social Security cuts
Cross-posted from Reuters.com: Would he or wouldn’t he? President Obama’s deficit commission endorsed cutting Social Security benefits last month, and many wondered whether the president would endorse those cuts in his State of the Union message this week. Instead, the president reiterated the traditional Democratic position on Social Security in his address that he staked …
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