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premier preacher, Bishop T.D.

?,?s, reacted swiftly and sternly to
a published report where the Na-
tional Newspaper Publishers Asso-
ciation (NNPA) censured him for
not advertising with Atlanta Ts Black

Press prior to his hugely successful

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Bishop Jakes was incensed, de-
fiant, and defensive and dismayéd
with how he had been portrayed. Fol-
lowing his speech to the National
Association of Black Journalists ear-
lier this month, he pulled this re-

_ porter into the Hyatt Regency Ho-
tel downtown's kitchen corner " or- _
to keep his en-

tourage and others at a distance "

dered his security

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religious conferences ever.

oTo be called cheap in that ar-
ticle was an insult, ? said Jakes heat-
edly to this reporter. oIt also upset
me that rather than come to ine di-
for resolution, this matter was
ed publicly in the press. ?

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That rebuke brought this retort
from Atlanta Voice editor Stan
Washington who witnessed, but was
not allowed to participate T by Jakes T
security in the interview: oIt Ts only
yellow T journalism if it is untrue or
it is a deliberate attempt to smear
someone. The story was neither. It
was the truth. No one is out to slan-

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and harangued and reprimanded this
reporter with a blistering retort to
my previous story.

oEvery time | don't spend money
now I am a bad guy, ? he asks in-
credulously? oYou don't resolve a
business conflict with yellow T jour-

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ership Institute, successfully drew

der Jakes or his organization. ?

In that Atlanta Voice story- "
which was subsequently re-printed
in dozens of Black-owned papers
across the country " NNPA Presi-
dent John Smith, Sr. lamented that
much to his chagrin not one single

Butterfield and Cornerstone Church Hosts

By Susie Clemons
GREENVILLE, NC -

Saturday,
August 20, 2005,

Congressman

.G.K Butterfield, in artnership
with the angression

cus Political Education-and Lead-

Black Caii-

dime was spent with Atlanta's Black
press by Jakes T Mega Fest extrava-
ganza that drew some 150,000
people to Atlanta.

The snub followed a June speech
by Jakes to the NNPA, a federation
of more than 200 Black news pa
pers, where he pledged reconcilia-
tion between the Black church and
the Black press. ?

oThe story was not unfair, ? says
Smith, publisher of the Atlanta In-
quirer. oIn my conversation with
(Jakes), he said the story was one-
sided but we did not know how to
get to him. ?

oThe same person that they
reached me for when they invited
me (to their convéntion), that we
worked out arrangements for, that
scheduled the appointment was
(Washington D.C. publicist) Ofield
Dukes, ? counters the esteemed
Jakes. oAll they had to do was talk
to Ofield and it would have been
fine. I just resented the fact that the
way Black people in America do
business is done in the press and
not in person. ?

oIf I had known Ofield Dukes
was his conduit then I would have
done that, ? replies Smith: oFor
someone to have to jump through
that many hoops in order to get to
him in order for him to have a say
~ whether it is one-sided or not - I
think that is his fault. But by the
mere fact that he told me in Chi-

House of Representatives Daniel
oDan ? Blue; former Majority leader
of the North Carolina House of
Representatives Judge Milton oToby ?
Fitch; Congressman John Lewis of
Georgia and venerated North Garo-
lina Congressman Mel Watt.

Rev. Sidney Locks, Pastor of Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church and

host to the panel discussion on Voters Rights is pictured along with Walter

Cafo to get in touch with his people,
I though that was an insult to me. ?

For his part, Bishop Jakes says
he came to the Black press offering
an olive branch and agreeing to write
a weekly column for the NNPA
News Service free of charge.

oThey invited me to the Black
press (convention) and we did say
that we were oing to work to-
gether, ? he readily admits. oThey did
not say that the cost of admission
was how much money I spent. No
one said that in the entire meeting
And, it chat was the
about, I don't have to come speak

"for that. They need to send a busi-
ness proposal to a marketing direc-
tor. And it can't be done in June for
a (MegaFest) meeting that occurs in
August because we bought our ads
months and months ago, and we do
it nationally and not locally. ?

The Atlanta Voice Sales and
Marketing Director Cheryl Mainor
offers this account. oThe sales de-
partment began talking to Gheryl
Thomas with Potters House in Janu-
ary. In May they committed to run-
ning an ad before Mega Fest. «

In July, Jacquelyn Jakes called
and said they had exhausted their
local advertising budget and would
we like to barter for tickets to their
entertainment events,

The Atlanta Voice declined and
checked with other Black-owned At-

lanta newspapers " none of them had

and to ensure the election of Black
officials.
"The Voting Rights. Act of
1965 ?, according to Congressman
Butterfield, ohas changed the politi-
cal landscape of the First District. ?
In 1953 Butterfield witnessed his fa-

é

ge theis T historicél election to the Wil-

son Board of Aldermen in a district
election system that was soon there-
after modified to an at-large elec-
tion adopting anti-single shot vot-
ing, an act that dismantled concen-
trated voters. Alderman Butterfield
was strategically defeated in the fol-
lowing election.

It would be nearly two decades
until the Wilson Community of
minority voters would again have
Representation. Butterfield ac-
knowledges, oHad the Voting
Rights Act been in place in the
year 1957, not only would such
changes require approval by the
Department of Justice but minor-
ity plaintiffs would have had the
Proviso to bring lawsuit against

meeting wad,

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received any advertising, either. ?

Adds Dallas Weekly Publisher and

Atlanta Voice President James Wash-
ington, oAfter all you don Tt preach a

- sermon and not pass the collection

plate. ?

oIam not opposed to market-
ing in the Black press, but the ar-
ticle makes it sound like I put
money into other print media and
that I deliberately snubbed the Black

opress when, in fact, this is simpl
not the truth, ? he later e-mailed,
oWith the exception of ads we ran
in the papers of our MegaFest me-

i@ sponsors and the ad we fan in.

the T Atlanta Journal Constitution _

thanking the city for their hospital-
ity and announcing, as we did last
year, mext year Ts conference dates,
we did not buy ads in any newspa-
pet, including the Black press. ?

Jakes, who has been dubbed

oAmerica Ts Best Preacher ? by TIME

oMagazine, calls the NNPA criticism
and the story appearing in most of

the NNPA

ranted and unfounded attack.

oItis an integrity issue "to print

it, to write it and to slander me was

not being fair, ? argues Jakes, a

hugely popular TV evangelist who.

heads the Dallas-based mega-chutch
Potters House. oThe only ing they

accused me of was not giving them:

a piece of money and that is not a

See Jakes Cries Foul - Page 9

Panel Discussion on Voting Rights Act of65'

porary provisions of the VRA, sec-
tion 5 is the most important--sec-
tion 5 has been and is crucial to
minority political empowerment. ?

North Carolina, D- Congress-
man Mel Watt was arlier captured
saying, oWhile thé Voting :
Acts Tae bag teat progresey
there is\still mich work to do.
...loday 40 years later the voting
rights of minorities are still in jeop-
ardy, so Congress T reauthorization
of the VRA is not an option, it Ts im-

perative. The members'of the Con-

gressional Black Caucus are com-

mitted to renewing and strengthen- .

ing the Voting Rights Acts, ?

And that progress is tvident to-
day in North Carolina with elected
African American officials number-
ing 263 inclusive of: 3 Clerks of
Court; 51 County Commissioners,
(7 chairmen of their boards), in the
Ist Congressional District; 8 Dis-
trict Court Judges; 73 members of
Boards of Education; 5 General As-
sembly members; 18 Mayors; 91

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a gathering of well known politi- They along with a host of other tests as voting requirement. ? Court Judges,
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Missionary First Baptist Church
in Greenville, for what was just a
much a reunion of great minds
spanning decades of positive so-
cial change for African Americans,
as it was a panel discussion on
eliminating barriers to black po-
litical participation to commemo-
rate the 40th anniversary of the fed-

_ eral Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Those in attendance were
former member of Congress and one
of organizers of the 1963. March on
Washington Walter Fauntroy;
former speaker of North Carolina

trail blazers and political pundits
were present to share historical data
on voter discrimination and other
strategies enacted to deny African
Americans access to the polls, in a
day long event of workshops focus-
ing on the progress, hard won suc-
cesses and future of voting rights for
minorities.

Historically, North Carolina
has been a hot bed for political eq-
uity for African Americans, many
of whom have and. continue to
wage a successful battle to ensure
the protection of voting rights for
the African American community

oLiterary Tests ?, according to
NAACP Counsel Alaina Beverly
advised during the second work-
shop session, omay have again
taised its arm in North Carolina
with the current voting rights liti-

ation of whether provisionary
Ballots can be counted. ? Also
Beverly advised, othat while many
sections of the Voting Rights Act
of 1965 (VRA) are permanent,
some are temporary. It is the tem-
porary provisions, found in section
5, section 203 and sections 6
through 9, that are up for reau-
thorization in 2007. Of those tem-

To that end, Congressman
Butterfield reminds all minority
voters that, oThe blood
the Edmund Pettis Bridge, in
Selma Alabama in 1965 and.
throughout the South, forms the
foundation upon which we stand
and what we commemorate the
40th Anniversary of the Voting
Rights Act of 1965. ?

Remember, the message of the
movement of 1965 remains largely
unchanged today: if you don't
vote, you don Tt count,

Susie: Clemons is a staff writer
for the Minority Voice.

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GREENVILLE, NC - For a cen-
tury, it was standard practice at many
» American in-
surance com-
panies that
when it came
to burial insur-
ance, blacks
Were charged
© more than
i whites for the
| Same coverage.
he policies
Were small, pay-
ing out just
enough for a
modest funeral, but millions of them
were sold, many to poor black fami-
lies in the South. Now the industry
is being called to account. Insurance
regulators in many states have filed
complaints. Lawyers representing
black families have brought class-
action lawsuits. Companies with
policies sold by scores of insurers,
unwilling to defend what is now
viewed by society as indefensible
racial discrimination, are settling out
of court. .
~ Between 2000 and 2004, 16
major cases were settled. Those cases
covered 14.8 million policies sold by
90 insurance companies between
1900 and the 1980s. Together, the
settlements require the companies to
pay more than $556 million most of
It Is restitution to policyholders or
their survivors.
The two biggest settlements:
American General Life and Accident

Suejette Jones

hat Ts in

By David Sylvester
I recently completed a chari-
table bicycle trip in Africa,
a riding over
7000 miles
yom Cairo,
ypt to
ff Cope Town,
Mm South Af-
_ tica. The
|. trip made
me the first
afd only Af.-

a

I have plenty of great and
fascinating stories. Many are
funny, others bittersweet, some
are poignant, but all are enter-
taining. Surprisingly one story
has stood out and if it was not
for the fact that I have a picture
of it, many would never believe
it. It is for that reason that I am
sharing it with you.

I have traveled all over the
world and have never seen a
store by the name of oJew Dev-
ils, ? oSpic Bastards, ? oMuff
Divin T Dykes ? or anything like
that - only the store called
oNiggers. ? While in Lilongwe,
Malawi, I came across a store by
the name of oNiggers. ? That's

What Blacks can do

The problem with African
Americans is their heavy reliance on
politics. An example is the remark-
ably ill-informed, polemical cam-
paign against Sudan. In Sudan, both
the American left and right have
ptacticed subtle forms of self-sery-
ing, symbolic politics that hinder the
development of a positive Ameri-
can consensus on assistance. Afri-
can Americans have bought into po-
litical policies that prolonged a dev.
astating war and curbed any discus-
sions of means to sustain Sudan's
economic capacity.

America T interest in Sudan
mushroomed largely due to cam-
paigns led by missionary groups
sod, African-American churches,

resulting in an unusual alliance.

of right-wing politicians identi-
fied with the Republican Party
and members of the Democratic

_ Congressional Black Caucus,

While they've been goading Af-
rican-American activists to pro-
test. and march against Sudan,
fight-wing politicians and their
id projects have been generat.
ing money in and about Sudan.
~ When Black Americans
cease being a part of the prob-
lems of Sudan, they will realize
that spawning solutions can be-
come became a worthwhile en-
terprise. A U.N, survey ranks
Sudan as the sixth-richest coun-
try on the planet in terms of te-
Torces. It. is Aftica Ts largest
country. It has vast water ree
sources and possesses the late
irrigated farm in the world,
Gezra Project. It's the world Ts
gest producer of gum arabic,
ch & world consumes bil-
lions of times a day in fizzy

evant ed

Co. of New York agreed in

} greed in 2002 to
pay $157 million for 1.9 million

pmilicies. Other companies which
surance Co. of Decatur, Alabama,
Liberty Life Insurance Co.,of
Greenville, §.C, and ic Coast
Life Insurance Co. of South Carolina.

One spokesman for the Ameéri-
can Council of Life Insurers, a trade

group, said the insurance industry
settlements are best understood oin

the context of America Ts complex
history of race relations, ? *
Burial insurance,also known as
industrial, was originally developed
in Britain for sale to factory work-
ers. Introduced in the United States
in 1875, it spread nationwide, taking
especially strong hold in black neigh-
borhoods Tin the Southeast. There,
insurance agents peddled the poli-
cies door to door. Typically agents
stopped by weekly to collect the pre-
miums "often a dollar or less.
Through these regular visits, the
agents could see when families were
growing and pressed to insute each
new member. Instead of consolidat-
ing multiple policies into a single one
ata Deter rate, black customers were
encouraged to uying individual
ones for their woe families poli-
cyholders say. .

By 1955, the high-water mark
for burial insurance, American in-
surance companies held more than
$40 billion worth in 155 million

a Name? Hi

right oNiggers! ? The other riders,
who were all White, could not wait
to inform me of this to see my reac-
tion. Initially, |

ned...Lawauite 1

policies. Some industry giants, in- his son says, oThar was kind of 1i-
_luding Metropolitan Life, built
~- their business largely on profits from

burial insurance in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries, according to

at racial bias was built into these
policies was long an open secret in
the insurance industry, Insurance
forms asked the applicant Ts race, and
blacks were routinely charged more
than whites for the same coverage,
the insurance industry now publicly
acknowledge.

For decades, the insurance in-
dustry defended the disctiminatory
practice, arguing that blacks on av-
erage didnt live as long as whites,

making them a worse insurance risk.

However, attorneys for black
policyholdeps say, many insurers
continued the practice long after it
became known that it was poverty,
poor medical care, and risky jo

not race "that contributed to shorter
life span. That meant blacks contin-
ued to pay more than whites who
faced similar risks.

In many cases, industry critics
say, premiums paid over the years |
greatly exceeded the payment value
of the policies. One couple spent

$585 in premiums for a policy that

cy

paid a benefit of $60 according to
one lawsuit. Another paid $728 in

remiums over 20 years for a $520
Penefi, One black railway worker
and truck driver paid premiums
regularly for more.than 50 years, Yet
the insurer eventually told him that
some family policies, including the
one on his life, had somehow lapsed,

Bowser, who died on 9/11.
Here I am, a Black man tiding
across the world on his bicycle in

thought that it
was a very bad
joke but when the
other riders were
adamant about
the existence of

the store, I had to
see it for myself.
What I found was a store

+, Selling what the owner called
hipspop: style-clothing. Ie was

ia

manned by two gentlemen - one
of them asleep! (Talk about iv-
ing up to or in this case down to
a stereotype). I asked the guys
what was up with the store name.
After hearing my obvious non -
Malawian accent and figuring out
that I was from America, the
man thumped his chest proud]
and said oP-Diddy New York
City! We are the niggers! ?

My first reaction was to
laugh because many things when
isolated can be very funny, but
it quickly dawned on me that this
was so not funny at all. It was
pathetic. I did these bicycle trips
across the USA and through the
Mother -Land T in honor of one
of my good friends, mentors and
fellow African Americans, Kevin

drinks and chocolate bars. Sudan
has oil reserves rivaling those in

honor of an-:
other Black
ola Malawian] man thumped man, tidin
his chest roudly and said oP- | home T, an
Diddy New York City! We are | what do see?
the niggers! ? Some Afri-
cans calling
themselves

Niggers. They were even so proud
of it they put it on their store front
to.sell stuf. When I relay the story
to folks back home in Philadelphia,
moge, of them laugh too and ratio-
nalize it by saying well, we can sa
it to each other T or there is a dif-
ference T or even they just spelled
it wrong. It should have been
niggas T or niggah Ts T. Gee, like that
would make a difference.

The issue is not the spelling.
I was wrong. We are wrong.
There is no justification for an
infraction of this magnitude. The
word and the sentiment behind
it are flat out wrong. We have
denigrated and degraded our-
selves to the point that our back-
wards mindset has spread like a
cancer and infected our source,
our brothers, our sisters, our
Mother Land.

I have traveled all over the
world and have never seen a

to help

government of the north.
Like Garang, Blacks need to

felt h
vernment and corporate accounts. :

Bifsetry

ous, you paying premiums all
your life, but you don't have any cov-
erage? What were you buying? ? He
»: As tecent as January 2005, the
Associated Press reported that the
Bank of America and Bank One are

happens to B!

t bias policies!

discussing T possible settlements of |

class action: lawsuits filed by black
consumers who say they were
charged more for auto loans than
whites pay, That didn Tt necessarily
break the law, said. one lawyer for
the policyholders. Bur he added, oIt Ts
part and parcel of what we consider

A he + wie:

a scheme to take advantage of Afri-
can-Americans, 9

Note: This article caught my
attention | I, myself filed a
class-action sist with Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company. In June
2004, I received a settlement check
on behalf of my late father who died
in 1945. . . .

Respectfully: submitted

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store by the name of oJew Dev-

ils, ? oSpic Bastards, ? oMuff

Divin T Dykes ? or anything like
that- only the store oNiggers. ?

I am to blame-for this. Ey-
ery time I said the word, I con-
doned it. By not correcting oth-
ers or by rationalizing it, | gave
it respectability. By looking the
other way when others said hey
nigga what Ts up T, and when I pur-
chased CDs, DVDs, T-shirts and

Africa and

preached Marxism, Garang be-
came the darling of America Ts

en

oWhile White Americans take advantage of economic ventures in
have little knowledge of opportunities in their own homeland.
The money is in Africa. I don't care how humanita
comes to economic opportunity and economic potential, we have done ourselves and Africa a disservice by talking
much about the problems and not about the opportunities, ?

- former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. And:
Urban League's 65 Annual Conference

Saudi Arabia, but politicians
preach odisinvestment ? over in-
vestment there.

The untimely death of John
Garang has thrown the Compre-
hensive Peace Act (CPA) that
formed Sudan's new unity gov-
ernment into question, forcing
African Americans to choose
between politics of protest or
programs for peaceful progress
in Sudan. |

The CPA brought hope to war-
ravaged regions of ? Sudan and en-
sured wealth and power would be
shared. Mr. Garang was to be presi-
dent of the newly established South.
ern Sudan government and vice-
president of the new United Gov-
ernment of Sudan. After six years,
the south will vote on whether to
remain part of Sudan.

The conflicts, which Ameri-
can politics had a hand in pro-
mulgating, wrought vast devas-
tation in Sudan. Ten million
people were dislocated from
their homes and lands during the
world Ts longest war. Two million

ple died in 21 years of fight.
le in the south of Sudan be-
tween. the Christian-endorsed
Sudan People Ts Liberation Move-
ment and the majority-Muslim

take advantage of the opportu-
nity at hand. Though he once

rew Young, town hall meeting on

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Africa that benefit them, African Americans
White people are
rian they are; I don't care

edy to go where the money is,
w religious they are. When it

Africa and Diaspora, ? National

Religious Right. Through that
alliance, Sudan Ts profile became

p-Hop Ts African Influence

other stuff, I enriched it. I now
see the error in my ways and |
am so sorry Black men and
women,

The flame that we called en-
tertainment, that was only to
warm and entertain us, now en-
gulfs us and scorches our own
self esteem. If a child only knows
to refer to men and women as
niggers, bitches, pimps and
hoes, then what is he/she to grow

emselves

negative in America. Evangelical

hristian groups fastened on to
the cause of Garang Ts Southern
rebels, saying they were oa be-
leaguere Christian minority ?
and victims of othe Arab gov-
ernment. ?

Mobilizing around charges
of slavery, genocide and terror-
ism, Washington activists gave
Sudan a pariah status.

If Black Americans concen-
trate on peacemaking in Sudan,
thy can turn an Affican disas-

up thinking of themselves?

The bottom line is this: I rode
over 12,000 miles on two conti-
nents through 15 states and 13
countries and broke two bikes in
the process to get to a store in
Africa called Niggers. I am will-
ing to step up and admit my part
in the havoc that we have wrought
on our mindset but I think that
-we all are to blame.

I will finish with 4 things: if

- you don Tt like being called a

Nigger, Bitch, Faggot, Dyke,
Spic, Jew Do » Wop, Towel Head
or anythin of that ilk, then think.
Think before you speak those

- words, write those lyrics, support

that rhetoric: And most of all think

* before you purchase! Purchasing

is akin to compliance. | may like
the beats and rhythms of some
songs but J can not support it any
more. You rappers are intelligent.
Find another word to describe
yourselves,

A picture is worth a thou-
sand words. For larger view

_ click onto hetp:// playahata.com/

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David Sylvester is a personal
trainer, who teaches health to
adults in Philadelphia. He e-
mailed this story initially to 35
friends. They forwarded. the e-
mails, and Sylvester has received
more than 300 responses, includ-
ing responses from Japan since
the initial e-mail on July 20.

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ter into the continent Ts richest
country. They can become real
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Garang Ts peace agreement a last.
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Liberation Army to actually ne-
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SPARTANBURGS - Police in
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they've arrested a man for the
murder of Tamika Huston, the
24-year-old African-American
who became a symbol for critics
of the national media's apparent
lack of interest in missing adults
unless they're young, attractive,
white women.

Huston Ts disappearance be-
came a rallying point for critics
who decried media attention to
other cases. -

Under arrest: Christopher
Hampton, 25, an acquaintance
of Huston Ts who was released
from federal prison Friday. He

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3 mi s from Philadelphia. A few
dozen members of the Figueroa fam-
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shortly after daybreak; clustering close
tothe police tape and embracing each
other,

oNow she can rest in peace, ? said
the woman's father, Melvin Figueroa.
oAll I want is justice with that peace. ?

The woman's uncle, Jose
| _ . See of cay ibe as the dis
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LaToyia Figueroa to the weeks of fear and not knowing
PHILADELPHIA - Police discovered about LaToyia, who was five months
the remains of a missing Pregnant pregnant at the time of the disappear-

woman and qui | ance. oWe
Ex-boyfriend taken into custody

arrested the father can actually

ofher unborn child | J ame try to go
in case of missing pregnant

woman

Saturday, ending an back to a
exhaustive, normal life, ?
monthlong search. he said.
Lynas A Abshen T sid Sagi tives and friends have papered the cay
ney Lynne M. Abr saic en " tives i : the ci
Poaches would be with two with flyers and hel large-scale
Peto harap bes et enses searches for any sign of Fi neroa, re-
or the deaths of 24-year. LaToyia cently marking one month since her
Figueroa and her fetus, = _ disappearance. A reward fund for in-
Authorities did not ptovide a formation had reached $100,000, in-
motive or say what led them to sus- cludi donations from the restaurant

- Hampton was not incarcer-

Spartanburg Director of Public
Safety Tony Fisher said Friday,
Hampton was living in an apart-

~ ment where a significant amount

ocause of the femains were found. The newspa-
arge per said au-
amount of 7 thorities
blood dis- 30% of the missing per- hope 0

i cases are positively

rie ° P sore serie are men... identify the
ment. Fisher remains,
said oforen- which may.

of Huston Ts blood was later

\found.

Huston is presumed dead be-

Sing young women finall
arge with Murder in the Tamika Huston Case

' The arrest may also have led

- to the discovery of Huston Ts bod

Friday. The Spartanburg Herald-
Journal reported Saturday that at
some point in the day Friday po-
lice were led by Hampton to some
woods in the area where human

sic evidence ? has given his de-

artment what it needs to charge
Fampton with murder, but he
would not comment further dur-

ing a news conference in

Spartanburg.

roa found

where she worked.
The case attracted a brief flurry
of television attention after several
Philadelphia-area Dloggers waged a
campaign urging networks to give the
same attention to Fugueroa, who is
black and Hispanic, as they did to
Natalee Holloway, a white woman
who disappeared in Aru
Pooks lawyer, Michael Coard,
has repeatedly spoken to journalists
of his client, including na-
tional television appearances in which
he noted that Poaches has spoken to
investigators voluntarily and that he
has consented to have his home and
his vehicle searched.
Police Commissioner Sylvester
M. Johnson said Saturday that

Coard' Ts public relations moves would

nothold up. .
oHe has an attorney who has ba-

sically tried this case in the news me- |
dia and has depicted him to be inno-

cent. We are saying today that he is

not innocent and we are going to con- |

vict him and he will go to whatever
he deserves to get, ? jt said. "

Coard did not immediately re-
turn a phone. call seeking comment
after Saturday's news co

Figueroa, who also is the mother _

of a 7-year-old itl, was last seen on
bmg uly 18 in West Phila-

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While the cases of Laci
Peterson, Lori Hocking, Natalee
Holloway and other young white
women dominated cable news net-
works, Huston got almost no na-
tional attention for nearly a year

er she went missing. When her
case finally got significant cover-
age, the stories were mostly about

?,? national media's lack of inter-
?,?st, compared to cases involving
young white women.
The stories also noted that
young white women are by no
means the otypical ?, missing per-
sons: Slightly more than half of

missing adults are men and nearly

30% are black, even though blacks
account for just 13% of the U.S.
population. The FBI has nearly
50,000 active cases involving miss-
ing adults.
Rebkah

~ Huston Ts aunt,

Howard, is spokeswoman for the

missing woman's family. She said
Friday the family feels some. relief

_ networks and major newspapers,

e a

after Hampton's arrest but feels oas
if we're only halfway there. At the
time of Hampton's T arrests,
Howard said, owe still don Tt know
where Tamika is and we know it
will be a lengthy process before
he Ts ever convicted. ?

The last confirmed sighting of
Huston was May 27, 2004 in
Spartanburg. Family and friends
became concerned several days
later when they realized she hadn't
been to her apartment for some
time. Huston Ts dog, Macy, had
given birth to puppies in the ap
ment and it was clear no one had
been there for the births or to care
for the animals.

Immediately after reporting
Huston Ts disappearance to
Spartanburg police, her family be-
gan trying to call attention to her
case. Howard, who is a public re-
lations professional in Miami,
alerted newspapers and TV sta-
tions in South Carolina. The fam-
ily handed out fliers and held
candlelight vigils. A reward fund
was created. The efforts paid off:
Local media did stories about
Huston Ts disappearance. By mid-
June 2004, her case was atop the
local media's agenda.

Then Howard contacted na-
tional media. They had given heavy
coverage to the disappearance of
Peterson, from Modesto, Calif., in
2002-2003. Peterson Ts husband
Scott was convicted of her mur-
der earlier this year and was sen-
tenced to death. Laci Peterson was
27.

Howard talked to all four TV

& Stainless

Greta Van. Susteren briefly noted

oun
including

, USA TODAY. Fox News
Channel's On T the Record with

Huston Ts disappearance last Au-
gust. But no other national media
outlets were interested. .

At the same time, however,
most national news media were de-
voting airtime and newsprint to the
July 19, 2004, disappearance of:
Hacking, 27, of Salt Lake City.
Her husband later pled guilty to
her murder and was sentenced to
between six years and life in
prison. a mer

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nationally until March this year,
on the Fox network Ts America Ts
Most Wanted. Then in May and
June, National Public Radio.and
USA TODAY did reports about
Huston and the lack of media in-
terest in her disappearance com-

ared to the intense coverage of
runaway bride ? Jennifer Wilbanks
and missing Alabama teen
Holloway. Ske disappeared in
Aruba on May 30.

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convinced that national media at-
tention can make a big difference
to solving a missing person Ts case.

oI have a huge amount of re-
spect for the Spartanburg Public

afety Department and they de-
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time to Tamika Ts case, ? she said.
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attention we finally got only
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By John Waggoner
Mary Rathbun gets an $809
check ?,?very month from Social
Security and an additional $100 in
food stamps. The 74-year-old
Ormer nurse pays $550 in rent for
t apartment in St. Helens, Ore.
hat leaves less than $400 for
food, utilities and other expenses,
including medical bills. °
oTt takes a lot of Management, ?
says Rathbun. oI watch for things
that are on sale and don't dtink
soda. ? She Ts fortunate, she says,
because her treatments for colon
cancer - which has spread to her
lungs and liver - don Tt require a lot
of costly medications. o] think the
good Lord looks over me, ?

Rathbun says.

When Social Security was
launched 70 years ago Sunday, it
was meant to Tbe a supplement for
retitees, not a full pension, But
today, 10.6 million people, or 22%
of the 48 million who will receive
Social Security benefits this year,
live on that check alone, the So.
cial Security Administration says.

Living on only Social Security
isn't a happy prospect. It means
stretching every dollar, depending
on a patchwork of family, charity
and state programs to pay for what
Social Security doesn Tt cover - and
sometimes doing without. Those
living on nothing but Social Secu-
rity are often single women and
minorities. AARP. the senior ad-
vocacy group, says 25% of retired

the baby

women, including 46% of unmar-
tied Hispanic women, have no
income beyond Social Security.
AARP also says 33% of retired
African-Amerticans live on Social
Security aloné.

Those numbers could grow as
boom generation enters
retirement. Currently, 53% of
people in the workforce have no
pension, and 32% have no savings
set aside for retirement. The num-
ber of traditional pension plans -
the kind that guarantee a set
amount of money for life and that
have propped up many of the pre-

oomer generation - has fallen to

29,651 in 2004 from 112,208 in
1985.

The average Social Security

August 1 - 31, 2005

Security Alone

Payout is $955 a month, $11,460
annually. The benefit can be more
or less, depending on how many
years you worked, how much you
earned and the age you started tak-
ing payments. if

than $579, you can get Supplemen-

tal Security Income. But that just

tings your monthly income up to
79.

President Bush has proposed
overhauling Social Security y al-
lowing private investment accounts
and indexing benefit increases to
changes in consumer prices,
rather than wages. But proponents
and opponents disagree on how
those changes would affect people
who are totally dependent on So-
cial Security.

your check is less

Private accounts would give
workers the potential to earn more
on their savings than they would
get from Social Security, propo-
nents argue. And while tying in-
creases to consumer prices would
slow the growth of payouts over
time, the bottom third of income
carners would be exempt from that
Provision, says Michael Tanner of
the Cato Institute, a conservative
think tank.

Opponents argue that T people
would have to get a return of more
than 3 percentage points above the
inflation rate to benefit from pri-
vate accounts. oThe president Ts
Proposal would reduce benefits for
people living on Social Security
and subject what was left to sub-

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Page 5

stantially greater risk, ? says Jason
Furman, senior fellow at the Cen-
ter on Budget and Policy Priori-
ties.

Getting there

How do you wind up with
nothing but Social Security? Cindy
Hulsey, a case worker for the Area
Agency on Aging of Northwest Ar-
kansas, says about half of her 65
clients live on nothing but Social
Security. oThey tended to have
lower-paying jobs in their work-
ing careers, the ladies were home-
makers or the husband was a
farmer, ? she says.

oI've been a jailer, a deputy
sheriff, owned a taxi and drove it,
too, ? says Faye Hickman, 79, of
Harrison, Ark., one of Hulsey Ts
clients. She also worked 30 years
for Tyson Foods, the giant meat-
packing company. oYou could p°
into the pension or the stock, ? she
says. oI went into the stock. ? Tyson
stock fell to $7.28 in Match 2003
from nearly $25 in 1997, Her
money soon evaporated. Today, |

she lives on $888 a month, $146

of which goes to her mortgage, She
gets an additional $20 in food
stamps. oIt is tight, ? Hickman
says.

Rathbun had retirement sav-
ings. She got a lump-sum payout
from the hospital where she
worked. oI went through that when
I first got sick, ? she says. oIt didn Tt

Kenny Fewell, 63, of
Leesburg, Va., was just hitting his
stride as a heavy-equipment opera-
tor when he fell into a diabetic
coma at age 49. That ended his
career driving dump trucks and
other big equipment: For safety
reasons, the state took away his
license.

oWe never did have mich sav-
ings, ? he says. Being laid off took
care of the savings he did have,
and diabetes took care of the rest
of his working career. Now, he
and his wife, Nancy Ann, 56, also
a diabetic, get by on his $998 So-
cial Security check. The pay $188
a month for their subsidized hous-
ing.

° oPeople say ou can work with
diabetes, ? Fewell says. oSome can
and some can't. I Tve got a real bad
case. ? Fewell has neuropathy that
affects his hands, causing numb-
ness, pain and weakness.

For a while after he was laid
off, he reconditioned lawn mow-
ers, getting $30 to $35 apiece. But
he can Tt do that anymore. He

take long. ?

, Maainly stays in bed,-trying to

avoid getting diabetic sores.

oIt gets boring sitting at home,
staring at four walls, ? Fewell says.

Nancy Ann Fewell worked for
a doctor, doing filing and domes-
tic work. She paid her own Social
Security, but until she Ts declared
disabled, she won't get any pay-
ments. oHer feet swell up, and she
has tendonitis, ? he says.

Marnie McDonough, an At-
lanta social worker, says many of
her clients are single, African-
American women who had menial
jobs - as maids and housecleaners,
for example. oThe families they
worked for didn Tt pay into Social
Security for them, ? she says. oAnd
the women didn Tt earn much as
domestics and were more con-
cerned about putting food on the
table. ?

It Ts not easy

__ Getting by on nothing but So-
cial Security isn Tt easy. oUnless
you'e living with relatives, it would
be very difficult, ? says Alexandra
Armstrong, a Washington, D.C.,
financial planner.

Start with food. Rathbun says
she Ts had to pinch pennies most
of her life, so she Ts used to it. oI
was raised during the dirty °30s,
when you tarned ta manage, ? she
says. oI cook from scratch and
don Tt use a lot of prepared food, ?
She grows vegetables in her small
backyard oSits and. watches for
sales. oNo frivolities, ? Rathbun
says.

The Fewells get a box of gro-
ceries once a month from Reston
Interfaith, a local charity, although
some of the food isn Tt suitable for
diabetics. Eating at charity dinners
isnt much of an option. Fewell Ts
neuropathy makes his hands
shake, and he says it Ts embarrass-
ing to eat in public. oWe went to a
potluck dinner, and my shirt
looked like I was a pig, ? he says.
oWe don't go out much ?

Beyond food, medicine looms
as the biggest problem for many
of those trying to get by on Social
Security,

Hickman is fortunate because
she beat cancer. oWhatever can be
cut off has been cut off, ? she says.
But the 79-year-old also has heart
problems and asthma. Hulsey ar-
ranges for her to get her heart
drugs free from the manufacturer,
although Hickman frets that the
program might end this year.

Fewell, too, gets some of his
drugs from the manufacturer; al.
though he says it can take two
Months of more to get thein, But
because he needs as much as 75
units of insulin twice a day, he puts

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a ing eve

in women, in particular through
the Red Dress national awareness
campaign, have definitely paid
off, ? Sherry Marts, Ph.D., the
Society's vice president of scien-
tific affairs, said.

The survey shows that diseases
women most fear do not match u
with the ones most likely to kill
them. Heart disease was respon-

sible for 28.6 percent of all deaths -

in U.S. women in 2002, the last
year for which complete data is

bers have made no public statements
on King Ts general health or prospects
for recovery. In a statement issued
late Tuesday night, Martin Luther

|. King III said oexpressions of love

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oT certainly join all At-

1 complete recovery, ?
Franklin said. oOur prayers
are with her even when she Ts
not sick. We are very confi-
dent that the doctors are do-
thing they can. ?
The 78-year-old widow of the
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has two

sons and two daughters.

She has cohtinued her

is husband's work oe and civil

fights, founding the King Center fol-

_ Towing his 1968 assassination. She

was hospitalized in April with atrial
fibrillation and, following doctors T ad-
vice to avoid stress, she cut back on
public ap es over the summer.

People close to Coretta Scott
King said she suffered a stroke early
Tuesday and was taken to, Piedmont
Hospital that same morning. How
quickly King received medical atten-
tion following her stroke is one of

heart attack

available from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
All cancers combined, however,
represented only 21.6 percent of
women Ts deaths that year. Breast
cancer was tesponsible for less
than four percent of all deaths.
oIt Ts al perception, ? Remetz
said. oHeart disease is viewed as
more of a chronic process that
people can live with. They may be
fearful of heart attacks, bus many
view chronic illness as something

and stroke

many factors affecting her recovery,
medical experts say.

A breakthrough drug, tissue
plasminogen activator (t-PA), which
dissolves Blood clots, can help stroke
victims, but they must receive it
within three: hours of the onset of

symptoms. Studies have shown that

patients receiving the drug within
that time frame are at least 30 per-
cent more likely to recover with little

or no disability after three months.
Atrial fibrillation causes the
heart to quiver instead of beat reou-

larly, It also increases the likelihood
of a stroke fivefold, according to the
American Medical Association. .

About 2:2 million Americans
suffer atrial fibrillation. Coumadin,
an anti-coagulant, and aspirin are
common drugs prescribed for pa-
tients with the condition in order
to decrease the likelihood of blood
clots. ?"?~

Strokes, sometimes called
obrain attacks, ? are caused when a
blocked or ruptured blood vessel in-

-terrupts the flow of blood, oxygen

that wil
ately. ? |

The word cancer usually
evokes fear in miost people and .
advocacy groups have made
marked efforts to increase public
consciousness. .

oBreast cancer organizations
have been very successful. in. rais-
ing awareness, ? Marts explained.
oIt is the most common cancer di-
agnosis among women. However,

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not kill, them immedi-

and nutrients to thé brain. Where
in the brain the stroke occurs and
the extent of brain cell death also
factor into recovery, said Dr. Keith
Sanders, medical director of the
Stroke Center at St. Joseph Ts Hos-
ital. - |
P Stroke sufferers initially may be
weak on one side, suffer trembling
or stiffness in muscles, and have
trouble balancing and walking.
Their memory. a speech also can
be affected.
But time can be a healer,
especially when combined
with physical, occupational
and speech therapies, said
Dr. Philip Gorelick, profes-
sor of neurology and direc-
"tor of the Center for Stroke
Research at the University of
Illinois at Chicago College
of Medicine. .
oPeople can go for
weeks or months and still be
affected but slowly and surely
they canbe substantially bet-
ter in a year, ? Gorelick said
in a telephone interview.
oWe certainly don Tt under-
stand exactly how the brain recov-
ers. We're learning a lot more. ?
Age is another major factor in
surviving and recovering from a
stroke. oPeople who are older do not

_ recover as much as those who are

younger, ? Gorelick said, .

Every year more than 750,000
Americans have a stroke; including
about 20,000 Georgians.

It is the third leading cause of
death, killing 160,000 Americans
every year.

Patricia Gutherie && Etnie Suggs
write for The Atlanta Journal-Con-
stitution and Staff reporter Stacy
Shelton contributed to this article.

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Some people face hurdles and give it their best.
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WINTERVILLE, NC -With
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appearance. | feel he is capable
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oThe opportunity to
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undertake with a great deal of
passion and intensity, ? Way
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classroom and the court, I en-
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learned to my students and play-
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Community College volleyball them a greater chance of suc-
team will try to build uponasuc- cess. ? .
cessful 2004 campaign this. Way plans to draw from
month, starting with the PCC _ his playing days to lead his new
Intercollegiate Invitational Tour- squad. oMy experiences as a
nament Aug. 27-28. player allow me to demonstrate
Pitt hired 31-year-old Wil- the importance of hard work,
liam Way in July to direct the diligence and intensity toward
Bulldogs volleyball program, achieving success on the court, ?
he said. oHaving overcome in-
juries as a player and frequently
being under-sized, those at-
tributes allowed me ra cscame
and succeed against all odds.
Peas: Achine the Bulldogs
began earlier this month, giving
Way a chance to evaluate his new
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should pose a formidablé chal-
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. oMy outlook for this year Ts
team is to compete for a confer-
ence championship and advance
toward regional play beyond the
regular season, ? Way said. oDe-
fense will be a constant for us,
and our offense will provide a
difficult challenge for other pro-
grams to satel with as the sea-
SON progresses. ? ,
ay will make his PCC
coaching debut during the PCC
Invitational. Nine schools are
scheduled to participate in the
tourney, several coming from
nearby-Lenoir Community Col-
lege, Louisburg College and
Cape Fear Community College-
and five more from Maryland.
oThis is our third year and
z more Maryland teams are par-
** in : ticipating, ? said Tallo. oThey see
our tournament as a quality
event.

William Way

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up with the wait and keeps his

$600-a-year Medicare drug allow-
ance for emergencies.

Because it Ts so difficult to live ,

on Social Security, a primary chal-
lenge for many is findin people
to help them untangle the maze
of government and private pro-
grams available.

For some of the elderly, just
admitti 8 they need the help is
tough. oThey are proud people, ?
says Hulsey. oThey want to live in-
dependently for as long as possible. ?

any times, they never call.
oWe find them: bécause other
people call, ? says Ken Johnson,
director of sehior fespite services
in Columbia County, Ore,

One reason they hold on:
They don Tt want to have to depend
on Medicaid, the government's
health program for the poor. If
they get Medicaid, they can Tt have
much else. Johnson Says that in
Oregon, if you go on Medicaid,
the state can get reimbursed by
your estate when you die, leaving
your heirs with little. oPeople want
to leave an estate when t ey pass
on, ? Johnson says, oThey hold on
to the desperate. last. ?

For some, it Ts a lifeline. Recipi-
ents of Supplemental Social Secu-
rity Income must have less than
$2,000 in assets to qualify for Med-
icaid. But Medicaid will ay for
some of their » and that can
make a huge difference in their
standard of living. oSometimes
those people are Reeces off than
those who are just above the guide-
lines for Medicaid, ? Hulsey says.

Many of those living on So-
cial Security alone are looking
forward to the new prescription-
drug benefit from Medicare,
which kicks in next year. oIt Ts so
wonderful to be able to tell them
that they will get a free drug pre-
mium, ? says cDonough, the
Atlanta social worker. oOnce they
hear that, they Tte thrilled, ?

A good social worker - often
found through a state's programs
for the elderly - can be a godsend.
oMy case manager. is wonderful, ?
Hickman says of Hulsey, Hulsey

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Top Killer - From Page 6
advances in treatment have in-
creased survival rates dramatically,
so it is no longer the leading can-
cer killer of women in the U.S.
That distinction belongs to lung
cancer. ?

oIt may also-be an issue of con-
trol, ? Remetz said. oBreast cancer
has a strong, emotional compo-
nent. Breast cancer can involve
mutilating surgery but with heart
disease, doctors can use medica-
tions, angiography and stents to
prevent further disease. People feel
that they can beat it. ?

Lung cancer ranked seventh
among women Ts greatest health
fears, even though it claims more
female lives when compared with
breast cancer. In 2002, over
67,000 U.S. women died of lung
cancer, while 41,500 died of breast
cancer. Lung cancer is the leading
cause of death from cancer for
both.men and women in the
United States. Although the num-
ber of cases seems to be decreas-
ing among men, it continues to
rise among women, according to
the American Lung Association.

Women need to be aware of
their risk for different diseases,
oWe need continued public edu-
cation, as well as improved under-
standing among health care pro-
viders, about how diseases such as
heart disease and lung cancer af-
fect women, ? Marts cautioned.
oWomen and men are affected dif-
ferently by a wide range of condi-
tions. It is important to pay atten-
tion to your individual risk factors
and be aware of which diseases aré
on the: rise, Knowing their symp-
toms and the available tools oe
prevention and treatment are key
to maintaining good health.

This article was provided
courtesy of the Society for
Women Ts Health Research.

helps Hickman and others take ad-
vantage of local Programs for se-
niors. One, called Share and Care,
provides free groceries once a
month. The homebound aged can
get meals defivered via Meals on
cal senior activity center,
Families help sometimes.
Rathbun relies on her day hter,
Lucille Masterson, to drive er to
a clinic for medical treatment. oIt
helps to have a driver, ? she says.
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home. ?

But not everyone has family
available to help. And when they
are available, dealing with a finan-
cially strapped and often ailing eld-
erly relative can be hard on a fam-
ily, McDonough says.

In some cases, a son or daugh-
ter will quit work to help the par-
ent - which means both are living
on the parent's Social Security, or
some combination of Social Secy-
rity and government assistance.

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ave wives taking care of husbands,
Sons and daughters taking care of
moms and dads, and we try to find
telief for the primary caregiver. ?
Skeptical of private accounts
Many seniors are. split on

Bush's proposal for letting work-
?,?rs invest a portion of their Social
Security taxes in private invest-
ment accounts in the hopes of
earning more. Because of her
losses in Tyson Ts stock, Hickman
is skeptical of that plan. oThat's
Crazy, she says.

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Charles Goss, 75,
Leesburg, Va., isn Tt enthusiastic
about the idea, either. He and his
wife, Annie, Jive-on an $840
monthly Social Security check. He
Mays he wouldn't want to risk get-
ting any less. oIt pretty well takes
what I get to live, ? he says.

Rathbun thinks future genera-
tions will need some help. oIf
they're planning on Social Secu-
rity, they will need an investment
account of some sort to help
them, ? she says.

Those who are getting by on

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Social Security have some advice
for those who haven't retired yet:
Save. oTry and save all the money
you can, ? says Kenny Fewell.
oWhen you're on Social Security
and disability it Ts hard to get any-
thing else. ?

Be cautious in your spending.
oYou've got to manage close, ?
Hickman says. oYou're going to
have to an pennies, ?

Add don Tt kid yourself. oIt Ts
rough living on nothing but Social
Security, ? Fewell says.

John Waggoner writes for USA Today