Take lessons from past to guide future for Social Security and Medicare

From the Public News Service: Members of Washington state's congressional delegation are getting an earful during this recess about proposed changes to Medicare and Social Security. In the debate about the futures of these programs, some want Congress to look back at what the country was like without them. Mark Schmitt, a senior fellow at …

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Missing Voices in the Social Security Debate

Trudy Lieberman | From: AARP Bulletin Early in my career, I was asked to report on the consumer problems of older people. Shoddy home improvements and credit abuses — the usual complaints — did not rank at the top. The number one problem was food: Some seniors were living on cookies. That was before the …

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