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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged COLA

1. November 11, 2011 12:18 PM

   A Laurel to the AP

   For its eye-opening story on Social Security

   By Trudy Lieberman

   The AP’s recent story on proposed changes in the derivation of Social Security’s cost of living (COLA) formula is the kind of explainer we have urged the press to write. The piece, written by Stephen Ohlemacher, lays out exactly what will happen to people—and not just seniors already on Social Security, but others who will be affected by a new...

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2. October 21, 2011 01:50 PM

   The Human Faces behind the Social Security Rhetoric

   Good work from CBS News

   By Trudy Lieberman

   Finally, a mainstream media outlet has broken through the dominant narrative about Social Security and showed what the program means in dollars and cents to the fifty-five million people who rely on its monthly checks. You would never know that Social Security had any connection to real human beings from the media’s emphasis on gigantic numbers and political scaremongering about...

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