Recommended reading: Saving Social Security

Dean Baker says this piece by Thomas Edsall on The New York Times Opinionator blog should be “mandatory reading for reporters” covering the Social Security and Medicare debates. I think I have to agree.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

One thought on “Recommended reading: Saving Social Security”

  1. Geebus, the right wingers, the GOP and all those libertarian so-called think tanks want to raise the retirement age. Do they have any concept how hard it is for an older person to find a decent paying job? Sorry, Walmart greeter is a poverty level wage. It's hard enough for young folks to secure a decent middle class job, for the older worker it's 10 times harder if not impossible to find anything but a slave wage job. And older folks have many more medical problems and physical ills than some 25 year old with whom they would be competing for a job.

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