NAACP Leaders Criticize Social Security Plan
Denouncing President Bush’s plan for Social Security reform as one that would disproportionately hurt blacks, NAACP leaders have asked to meet with the president to discuss the issue.
“This proposal is extremely dangerous to us,” said Hilary O. Shelton, the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People’s Washington bureau chief. He said that among married couples, twice as many blacks as whites relied on Social Security for their entire retirement incomes, and blacks in their 50s were twice as likely to become disabled as whites.
Bush has said blacks would benefit from his privatization plan.
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