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Chained CPI

A Laurel to the AP

For its eye-opening story on Social Security

The AP’s recent story on proposed changes in the derivation of Social Security’s cost of living (COLA) formula is the... More

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Chained CPI: A broken link at NPR

For a massive change to Social Security, ‘he-said/she-said’ reporting just doesn’t cut it

A piece on NPR's All Things Considered that aired Monday did little to enlighten listeners about a major change... More

Covering the Chained CPI

Let me count the ways it can be done

There are five ways to cover the Chained CPI, a proposed new method for determining the cost-of-living (COLA) adjustments that... More

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Faces Congress doesn’t see

The “chained CPI” debate needs to step out of wonkland

This week The Washington Post reported results from its December poll with ABC, which took the public pulse on a... More

Grandparent of the Chained CPI

Some stories never die

Sarah Cohen, a professor at the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke, and a one-time reporter for... More

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The media discover the ‘chained CPI’

And the more they dig, the rougher it looks

Except for Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik, and a few stray media outlets here and there—The Providence Journal, The... More

Oops! LAX TSA officer shamed a BoingBoing writer’s daughter

And he used his media clout to make it a thing

Can ladymags do serious journalism?

Some people don’t seem to think so

Atlantic launches weekly iPhone mag

The paid product its prez teased a few months back has arrived

The usefulness of pie charts, in two pie charts

Business Insider launched an excellent attack against pie charts. But if all those words are bogging you down, WaPo has a simpler version

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