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Obama Targets Social Security, Medicare

Faced with trillion-dollar deficit, president-elect vows reform, trims

By Jason Farago, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 8, 2009 7:38 AM CST

(Newser) – In his first foray into the hazardous terrain of entitlement programs, Barack Obama said yesterday that his administration would overhaul Social Security and Medicare to clamp down on government spending. At a news conference and in a subsequent interview with the New York Times, the... Read full story »

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