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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Dick Durbin

1. November 8, 2011 11:05 AM

   WaPo’s Misleading Social Security Piece

   Article doesn’t come close to telling the whole story

   By Trudy Lieberman

   By now we’re aware that The Washington Post supports serious changes in Social Security. In fact, the paper editorialized Friday that the word “thuggish” comes to mind when discussing ads from the AARP opposing Social Security cuts. “The crunch time for the congressional super committee has arrived, and with it comes a new round of self-centered, shortsighted intransigence on the...

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2. November 29, 2011 11:55 AM

   Switching Sides on Social Security

   Look who’s getting rid of the payroll tax

   By Trudy Lieberman

   What to do about those FICA contributions, aka payroll taxes, now that the supercommittee has blown up? Last Christmas the Obama administration handed workers a special gift—a one-year holiday from paying their payroll taxes, which as most workers know fund their Social Security retirement benefits and disability and survivor’s benefits, should they need them later on. The year is up....

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