Actually, the article was fine, the problem was the headline "Candidates Diverge on How to Save Social Security." Do the candidates diverge on their plans to "save" the Defense Department, the Justice Department, the Energy Department?
The Post doesn't run front page headlines like this because they would not make any sense. Neither does this headline about a program that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects to be fully solvent until 2046 with no changes whatsoever. CBO projects that even after the date when the program can no longer pay full benefits it would always be able to pay larger real benefits than what current retirees receive.
The Post's editors don't like Social Security and would like to see the program cut and/or privatized. They should try to keep their editorializing out of front page headlines.
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