In case you missed it: Last Sunday The New York Times had a thoughtful examination of the pros and cons of the pinking of America-the Susan G. Komen foundation’s marketing of breast cancer awareness and its work raising funds for breast cancer research. NPR took a look at the anti-pink backlash. So I thought it […]
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The Medicare Bind
Democrats should defend Medicare. But if they want to accomplish much else, they will have to change it.
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Underrating Reform
Even with its compromises, health reform is the most ambitious effort in decades to reorganize a big part of life around principles of justice and efficiency.
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Two Cheers for Clinton’s Social Security Plan
Think Social Security should invest in the stock market? Take a closer look.
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Behind the Numbers: The Privateers’ Free Lunch
The flawed mathematical assumption behind privatizing Social Security.
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The Biggest Deal: Lobbying to Take Social Security Private
Privatizing Social Security would create an enormous financial bonanza. So guess who’s spending millions to change public perceptions and national policy.
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Of Our Time: My Dinner with Bill
P ersonally, it doesn’t bother me at all that Bill Gates’s net worth ($46 billion) is larger than the combined net worth of the bottom 40 percent of American households ($37.8 billion, excluding their cars). Several years ago I had dinner with Bill Gates and about a dozen other people at a nicely appointed home […]
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Is There a Social Security Crisis?
E conomist-bashing has long been a popular pastime among intellectuals right and left. Economists themselves, however, are not supposed to bash back. So when I decided to break that rule, I fully expected retribution. Surprisingly, until now all of the really personal attacks on me have come from the right, from the likes of Alan […]
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Still With Us
Social Security is our most successful antipoverty program, but large numbers of the elderly are still poor—and Social Security could be part of the solution.
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Social Security on the Table
Must we destroy Social Security in order to save it?
