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Washington Post Discards All Journalistic Standards in Attack on Social Security
Reprinted from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (October 29, 2011) By Dean Baker News outlets generally like to claim a separation between their editorial pages and their news pages. The...
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All Things Considered Falls for Pew’s Phony Generational War Story
Reprinted from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (November 7, 2011) By Dean Baker All Things Considered did a major piece on a study from the Pew Research Center which showed substantial...
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Why Mitt Romney’s Entitlement-Privatization Plan Is Crazy
By Matt Taibbi “David Brooks, the [gratuitous insult deleted], wrote this this morning entitled “Mitt Romney, the Serious One.” In it, he explained how Romney’s recent decision to unveil a plan for...
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Esquire Magazine: Writer wanted to help convert class war into generational...
Reprinted with permission from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (March 30, 2012) By Dean Baker This could well have been the want-ad Esquire used to attract a writer for its story titled,...
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Bill Keller Wants to Take Away Your Social Security and Is Either Too...
Reprinted from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (July 29, 2012) By Dean Baker The effort by the rich to take away Social Security keeps building momentum. Today Bill Keller urges his fellow...
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Another New York Times Columnist Attack On Social Security And Medicare
Reprinted from Campaign for America’s Future (July 30, 2012) By Dave Johnson The New York Times contains another elite-columnist attack on our Social Security and Medicare systems today. This time it’s...
View ArticleThe Most Fundamental Misunderstanding About Social Security
By Jeff Nygaard Reprinted (with permission) from Nygaard Notes Recently the Associated Press (AP) published a four-part series of stories examining “the state of Social Security and its long-term...
View Article6 Reasons the Fiscal Cliff is a Scam
Reprinted from Alternet By James K. Galbraith The so-called “fiscal cliff” is a mechanism for rolling back Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Stripped to essentials, the fiscal cliff is a device...
View ArticleGalbraith: Is This the End for the Deficit Drones?
Reprinted from Alternet. By James Galbraith Public opinion is turning on those who seek to cut our social safety net. In wars, sometimes there comes a moment when the tide turns. The collapse of...
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Without Progressive Uproar, Social Security and Medicare Face Axe
Reprinted from Common Dreams (October 21, 2013) under Creative Commons License By Jon Queally, staff writer The lines are being drawn for a ‘Grand Bargain’ and the Democrats’ continued willingness to...
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