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Do Social Security and Medicare Need to Be Reformed?

Medicare and Social Security are issues in the presidential campaign. With young workers paying benefits for the elderly, who are better off, will that divide generations?

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By Warren Olney • Aug 21, 2012 • 50m Listen

Medicare and Social Security are issues in the presidential campaign. With younger workers paying benefits for the elderly, who are better off, are they also issues that will divide generations of Americans? Also, an Afghan attack hits the aircraft of a top US general, and tax exempt groups supposedly promoting "social welfare" are the major source of anonymous contributions to this year's campaigns.

Banner image: President Roosevelt Signs the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935.

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