A Young Person’s Guide to Social Security is an excellent tool for teaching students and younger workers how the system works and what’s at stake in the struggle over Social Security’s future. But big money is behind “Understanding Fiscal Responsibility,” a competing curriculum that can’t hide its deep ideological bias. The Social Security wars are [...]
Archive for September, 2012
Teaching Social Security, With and Without Prejudice
17 Sep 2012 at 16:47
Eric Laursen
Economics, Medicare, Social insurance, Social Security, Uncategorized
Jon Cowan: Once Again, Ginning Up Faux Youth Outrage
Coming soon: a new pressure group called “The Can Kicks Back,” which aims to turn younger Americans into an anti-deficit avenging army. It will surely attempt to play a role in the post-election talks surrounding the “fiscal cliff.” This offensive bears a slight odor of deja vu, however, because one of its organizers is Jonathan [...]
