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Author : National Council of Welfare (Canada)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Blueprint for Social Security Reform written by National Council of Welfare (Canada) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Eugene Steuerle
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
ISBN 13 : 9780877666028
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Retooling Social Security for the 21st Century written by C. Eugene Steuerle and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 1994 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the Social Security debate arguing that Social Security needs reform and offering a blueprint for implementing them to meet today's and tomorrow's needs.
Author : Sylvester J.. Schieber
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300081497
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (814 download)
Download or read book The Real Deal written by Sylvester J.. Schieber and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work puts debates about Social Security reform into historical perspective, considers various reform ideas, and elaborates a proposal to ensure that the system can continue to meet the claims of the retired and the disabled. It sets out a plan to change the way Social Security is financed.
Author : Peter A. Diamond
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815797834
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Saving Social Security written by Peter A. Diamond and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New in Paperback. While everyone agrees that Social Security is a vital and necessary government program, there have been widely divergent plans for reforming it. Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag, two of the nation's foremost economists, propose a reform plan that would rescue the program both from its projected financial problems and from those who would destroy the program in order to save it. Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 2004, the Social Security debate has moved to the center of the domestic policy agenda. In this updated edition of Saving Social Security, the authors analyze the Bush Administration's proposal for individual accounts and discuss the so-called "price indexing" proposal to restore long-term solvency through changing how initial benefits would be calculated. Soc ial Security is essis essential reading for policymakers involved in reform, analysts, students, and all those interested in the fate of this safeguard of American lives. "An honest, transparent and comprehensive approach to making the much needed reforms to the Social Security program."—Journal of Pensions, Economics, and Finance "Very accessible presentation of facts, analysis of underlying problems, comparison of opinions, and argument for proposed reforms."—Future Survey Exhaustively researched and deeply entrenched in practical issues and mathematical calculations... a highly recommended ray of hope against a looming national crisis." —Wisconsin Bookwatch "Diamond and Orszag bring some welcome realism and decency to the debate."—Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nobel Laureate in Economics
Author : Martin Feldstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226241890
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Distributional Aspects of Social Security and Social Security Reform written by Martin Feldstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social security is the largest and perhaps the most popular program run by the federal government. Given the projected increase in both individual life expectancy and sheer number of retirees, however, the current system faces an eventual overload. Alternative proposals have emerged, ranging from reductions in future benefits to a rise in taxrevenue to various forms of investment-based personal retirement accounts. As this volume suggests, the distributional consequences of these proposals are substantially different and may disproportionately affect those groups who depend on social security to avoid poverty in old age. Together, these studies persuasively show that appropriately designed investment-based social security reforms can effectively reduce the long-term burden of an aging society on future taxpayers, increase the expected future income of retirees, and mitigate poverty rates among the elderly.
Author : Peter A. Diamond
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780199247899
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Social Security Reform written by Peter A. Diamond and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also considered are the risks in the political process."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Michael Tanner
Publisher : Cato Institute
ISBN 13 : 9781930865556
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Social Security and Its Discontents written by Michael Tanner and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2004 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tanner (Cato Project on Social Security Choice) brings together work by leaders in Social Security reform, examining problems of the current system and offering proposals for reform. Contributors in economics, law, and philosophy, many affiliated with the Cato Institute, examine aspects of the problem related to issues such as property rights, the impact of Social Security reform on low-income workers, and how stock market declines affect the reform debate. They advocate allowing younger workers to privately invest their Social Security taxes through individual accounts.
Author : Charles P. Blahous
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313000344
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Reforming Social Security written by Charles P. Blahous and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-08-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blahous contends that Social Security is ill-equipped to withstand the effects of an aging population and will impose excessive tax burdens upon future Americans unless its course is changed. Far from a doomsday tract, however, the book provides instances of proposals that would satisfactorily avert this course, if only the political will is mustered to implement them. Blahous argues for the program developed by the National Commission on Retirement Policy, but also offers positive descriptions of plausible alternatives as well as unsparing criticism of those who would cook the books in defense of either current law or high-cost alternatives. Reforming Social Security is sure to disturb ideologues from all parts of the political spectrum, because of its frank willingness to expose the costs of different approaches as well as the self-interest so often pursued by interest groups, political actors, and Social Security experts. An important analysis for the general public as well as policy makers and others concerned with social security issues.
Author : Henry J. Aaron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Countdown to Reform written by Henry J. Aaron and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised and updated edition of their influential book, two of the nation's most widely respected economists argue that calls for scrapping Social Security in favor of a privatized plan are misguided and that the claims that the system faces bankruptcy are not only exaggerated, they are just plain wrong. The authors analyze the economic assumptions underlying current reform efforts, closely scrutinizing proposals to reform Social Security. They also provide the historical background of the economic circumstances that different generations have faced and show how changes in Social Security have affected life in America.
Author : Daniel Shaviro
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226751171
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Making Sense of Social Security Reform written by Daniel Shaviro and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Security Act of 1935 must be counted among the most monumental pieces of legislation ever passed by Congress. Today, sixty-five years after its enactment, public support for Social Security remains extremely strong. At the same time, there have been reports that Social Security is in grave danger of financial collapse, and numerous groups across the political spectrum have agitated for its reform. The president has put forward proposals to rescue Social Security, conservatives argue for its privatization, and liberals advocate increases in its funding from surplus tax revenues. But what is the average person to make of all this? How many Americans know where the money for Social Security benefits really comes from, or who wins and loses from the system's overall operations? Few people understand the current Social Security system in even its broadest outlines. And yet Social Security reform is ranked among the most important social issues of our time. With Making Sense of Social Security Reform, Daniel Shaviro makes an important contribution to the public understanding of the issues involved in reforming Social Security. His book clearly and straightforwardly describes the current system and the pressures that have been brought to bear upon it, before dissecting and evaluating the various reform proposals. Accessible to anyone who has an interest in the issue, Shaviro's new work is unique in offering a balanced, nonpartisan account.
Author : Melissa Hardy
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610442725
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Pension Puzzles written by Melissa Hardy and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rancorous debate over the future of Social Security reached a fever pitch in 2005 when President Bush unsuccessfully proposed a plan for private retirement accounts. Although efforts to reform Social Security seem to have reached an impasse, the long-term problem—the projected Social Security deficit—remains. In Pension Puzzles, sociologists Melissa Hardy and Lawrence Hazelrigg explain for a general audience the fiscal challenges facing Social Security and explore the larger political context of the Social Security debate. Pension Puzzles cuts through the sloganeering of politicians in both parties, presenting Social Security's technical problems evenhandedly and showing how the Social Security debate is one piece of a larger political struggle. Hardy and Hazelrigg strip away the ideological baggage to explicate the basic terms and concepts needed to understand the predicament of Social Security. They compare the cases for privatizing Social Security and for preserving the program in its current form with adjustments to taxes and benefits, and they examine the different economic projections assumed by proponents of each approach. In pursuit of its privatization agenda, Hardy and Hazelrigg argue, the Bush administration has misled the public on an issue that was already widely misunderstood. The authors show how privatization proponents have relied on dubious assumptions about future rates of return to stock market investments and about the average citizen's ability to make informed investment decisions. In addition, the administration has painted the real but manageable shortfalls in Social Security revenue as a fiscal crisis. Projections of Social Security revenues and benefits by the Social Security Administration have treated revenues as fixed, when in fact they are determined by choices made by Congress. Ultimately, as Hardy and Hazelrigg point out, the clash over Social Security is about more than technical fiscal issues: it is part of the larger culture wars and the ideological struggle over what kind of social responsibilities and rights American citizens should have. This rancorous partisan wrangling, the alarmist talk about a "crisis" in Social Security, and the outright deception employed in this debate have all undermined the trust between citizens and government that is needed to restore the solvency of Social Security for future generations of retirees. Drawing together economic analyses, public opinion data, and historical narratives, Pension Puzzles is a lucid and engaging guide to the major proposals for Social Security reform. It is also an insightful exploration of what that debate reveals about American political culture in the twenty-first century. A Volume in the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology
Author : Andrew G. Biggs
Publisher : AEI Press
ISBN 13 : 0844772097
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (447 download)
Download or read book Social Security written by Andrew G. Biggs and published by AEI Press. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of record-setting deficits and concern over burgeoning debt, perhaps no single issue is more hotly debated than how to fix Social Security, a program long called the "third rail" of American politics because it killed the political career of anyone who touched it. But the immediacy of America's fiscal problems presents an opportunity to reform and renew one of the largest expenditures in the federal budget. Fixing Social Security requires us to understand the purpose of the program, how it was designed to work, andy why it is going broke. In Social Security: The Story of Its Past and a Vision for Its Future, Andrew G. Biggs retraces the history of Franklin Roosevelt's plan to provide for retirees, explains why the current system is unsustainable, and offers a plan to pay back "legacy debt" and create a sound Social Security system for the future.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Social Security
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Social Security Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Social Security and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Douglas Arnold
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815791267
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Framing the Social Security Debate written by R. Douglas Arnold and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 1998 State of the Union address, President Clinton challenged Americans to a public debate about how to fix the long-term financial problems of Social Security. This annual volume of the National Academy of Social Insurance provides a framework for that debate. Competing reform proposals reflect contrasting views about the nature of the Social Security problem and how to solve it. This book examines issues about privatization, national savings and economic growth, the political risks and realities in reforms, lessons from private pensions developments in the United States, and the efforts of other advanced industrial countries to adapt their old-age pensions to an aging population. It also poses philosophical arguments about collective versus individual responsibility and the implications of market risks and political risks for stable and secure retirement income policy. The contributors are Theo Angelis, Michael J. Boskin, Peter A. Diamond, John Geanakoplos, Hugh Heclo, Karen C. Holden, Howell Jackson, Olivia Mitchell, Dallas L. Salisbury, Lawrence H. Thompson, Kent Weaver, and Stephen P. Zeldes. Copublished with the National Academy of Social Insurance
Author : Todd Schafer
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9781563247682
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (476 download)
Download or read book Reclaiming Prosperity written by Todd Schafer and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1996 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Timely reading for general readers as well as students and faculty". -- Choice "EPI has assembled some of the best minds in the country to offer sound solutions to the problems our country faces". -- Richard Gephardt
Author : National Council of Welfare (Canada)
Publisher : Canadian Government Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book A Blueprint for Social Security Reform written by National Council of Welfare (Canada) and published by Canadian Government Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report begins with proposals on three social programs that are highlighted in the discussion paper. There is a proposal for a new program of work income supplements for families with children that could be the centrepiece of the federal government's commitment to eliminating child poverty. The next chapter urges the federal, provincial and territorial governments to renegotiate the terms of the Canada Assistance Plan to ensure reasonable support for people in need, a range of social services, and an end to disincentives to work in the welfare system. The chapter on unemployment insurance looks at the two main approaches to reform outlined in the discussion paper and recommends that the federal government proceed cautiously. The following two chapters contain recommendations on economic and fiscal matters which are intimately tied to social security reform. It emphasizes the importance of creating good jobs as the key to the well-being of the millions of Canadian families and individuals who would gladly choose self-reliance to reliance on programs such as welfare and unemployment insurance. There are also proposals for coping the with cost of social security at a time when governments across the country are struggling for money and searching for ways to reduce their deficits.
Author : Paul Charles Light
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Artful Work written by Paul Charles Light and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1985 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
