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A new column by Michael Hiltzik in today’s LA Times demolishes the “sky is falling” critics of Social Security and makes a compelling case for increasing benefits for low-income workers, and expanding coverage to include mothers, students and dependents who have been wrongfully excluded from Social Security for far too long. But I think Hiltzik [...]
One change could eliminate the long-term shortfall, promote tax equity and allow a modest benefit increase now The 2012 Social Security Trustees’ Report shows the nation’s most important and popular social insurance system is on sound financial footing for at least another generation. With $2.7 trillion in its trust fund, Social Security can pay full [...]
The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), a media watchdog committed to high standards in journalism, has released a scathing critique of many media outlets for sub-par reporting on Social Security. From the article: For nearly three years CJR has observed that much of the press has reported only one side of this story using “facts” that [...]
Mustache aficionado Robert Samuelson pushed some voodoo economics about Social Security in his latest column for the Washington Post – and now he (along with the Washington Post) is receiving some well-deserved ridicule for it. At least four different experts - including Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman - have stepped up to refute his claims and remind us why it’s nothing [...]
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