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Social Security Part 10: Parsing the Pain
Jason Furman,
Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) and visiting scholar at NYU, was economic advisor to the Kerry-Edwards campaign,
- on whether President Bush's plan to cut benefits for future retirees "targets the middle class"
» CBPP
and
Phillip L. Swagel,
economist and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), former chief of staff at the White House Council of Economic Advisors under the current President Bush,
-maintains it is necessary to reform the Social Security system and on the President's latest proposal for wage indexing
» AEI
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