Dean Baker says this piece by Thomas Edsall on The New York Times Opinionator blog should be "mandatory reading for reporters" covering the Social Security and Medicare debates. I think I have to agree.
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Geebus, the right wingers, the GOP and all those libertarian so-called think tanks want to raise the retirement age. Do they have any concept how hard it is for an older person to find a decent paying job? Sorry, Walmart greeter is a poverty level wage. It's hard enough for young folks to secure a decent middle class job, for the older worker it's 10 times harder if not impossible to find anything but a slave wage job. And older folks have many more medical problems and physical ills than some 25 year old with whom they would be competing for a job.
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