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Social Security Is for Everybody
Hess, J.L. | January 16, 1988 issue

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This article focuses on social security in the United States, with specific reference to the cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA), and politics revolving around COLA, along with the role of media. On December 31, Americans on Social Security received a COLA of 4.2 percent. It represented a triumph of truth and fair play over a campaign of disinformation and bias involving virtually all the media. There was a serious push in the media for a freeze or a lid on the COLA, but no public debate. News reports, editorials and commentaries concluded unanimously that cowardly politicians had finally bowed to an affluent "special interest," the elderly, in a greedy grab that would worsen the budget deficit.

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SOCIAL security; COST-of-living adjustments; ECONOMIC security; UNITED States -- Politics & government; MASS media -- United States; UNITED States
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