Television reports don’t do justice to the debate raging on Capitol Hill over President Bush’s plans for Social Security. Newspaper coverage falls short, too. After  all, both formats have time and space limitations and commonly fall prey to reporting what is said versus reporting the facts.

Due to the serious societal implications that President Bush’s plan poses to the nation—and particularly future Social Security recipients, including retirees, adults with disabilities, their dependents and children whose parents have died—a number of government watchdog organizations and research groups are covering the issue in depth on their Web sites.

To get more information, visit: the Coalition on Human Needs (www.chn.org); the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (www.cbpp.org); the Economic Policy Institute (www.epinet.org); the Social Security Network, a Century Foundation Project (www.socsec.org); the Center for American Progress (www.americanprogress.org); the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare (www.ncpssm.org); and the National Women’s Law Center (www.nwlc.org).

The AFL-CIO also has a wealth of information on its Web site at www.aflcio.org/issuespolitics/socialsecurity/.