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May 10, 2005
Glamour Misleads Women on Social Security Reform
The June issue of Glamour provides its readers with a one-page article on Social Security reform. It's an appallingly bias piece--citing three liberal (though, of course, technically "nonpartisan") women's groups and sending its readers for more information to those organizations' websites. Glamour minimizes the extent of Social Security's problems and focuses on benefit cuts that might occur under a reformed Social Security plan. Not surprisingly, Glamour compares guaranteed benefits (not including what would accrue in personal retirement accounts) with benefits promised--but not paid for--under current law. Glamour readers deserve better than this nonsense. Social Security is a critical issue for young women. Women should get more information about the real trade offs of different reform plans and the costs and consequences of doing nothing. Unfortunately, no such information is contained in Glamour's article. An oped on this subject is available on National Review Online.Posted by Carrie Lukas at May 10, 2005 9:36 AM | Print
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