AP Column Misleads Public About the Health of Social Security

AP has been running a series of widely distributed columns that have been trying to convince readers that the Social Security system is in crisis and is in desperate need of fixing. These pieces have contributed to the misinformation on the topic that has been widely disseminated by wealthy people like Peter Peterson and the Washington Post.

These pieces routinely try to scare the public by expressing the size of the projected Social Security shortfall in large numbers that lack any context....