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Last week, a report by the leader’s of Obama’s deficit commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, recommended massive cuts across the budget, most significantly to Social Security and health care programs. But according to Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, the report is “the wrong answer to not a problem.” ...
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Last week, a report by the leader’s of Obama’s deficit commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, recommended massive cuts across the budget, most significantly to Social Security and health care programs. But according to Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, the report is “the wrong answer to not a problem.” ...
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