The Philadelphia Inquirer is the first traditional media outlet to have any reporting on Social Security's proposal to increase the age categories in the grid regulations by two years, a proposal that will cut disability benefits by almost $6 billion over ten years. The piece by Mark Alan Hughes criticizes the proposal on the grounds that it will have a disproportionate effect upon African Americans. Perhaps a more accurate criticism is that the proposal affects blue collar America almost exclusively and African Americans are a disproportionate part of blue collar America.
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