AP Displays Numeracy Deficit in Social Security Coverage

January 31, 2011

A headline of an AP article (featured on Yahoo’s website) told readers that: “Social Security posting $600B deficit over 10 years.” Actually, the Social Security program is projected to run a surplus in every year of the next decade, adding more than $1.3 trillion to its trust fund, as people with access to the Social Security Trustees Report know.

 

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