Saving Social Security
Title | Saving Social Security PDF eBook |
Author | Peter A. Diamond |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2006-05-25 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0815797834 |
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
Social Security Reform
Title | Social Security Reform PDF eBook |
Author | Peter A. Diamond |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780199247899 |
Also considered are the risks in the political process."--BOOK JACKET.
Social Security, a Guide for Representative Payees
Title | Social Security, a Guide for Representative Payees PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Social security |
ISBN |
Social Security Policy in a Changing Environment
Title | Social Security Policy in a Changing Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey R. Brown |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 473 |
Release | 2009-12-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0226076504 |
Social Security Policy in a Changing Environment analyzes the changing economic and demographic environment in which social insurance programs that benefit elderly households will operate. It also explores how these ongoing trends will affect future beneficiaries, under both the current social security program and potential reform options. In this volume, an esteemed group of economists probes the challenge posed to Social Security by an aging population. The researchers examine trends in private sector retirement saving and health care costs, as well as the uncertain nature of future demographic, economic, and social trends—including marriage and divorce rates and female participation in the labor force. Recognizing the ambiguity of the environment in which the Social Security system must operate and evolve, this landmark book explores factors that policymakers must consider in designing policies that are resilient enough to survive in an economically and demographically uncertain society.
The Effect of Social Security on Personal Saving
Title | The Effect of Social Security on Personal Saving PDF eBook |
Author | Alicia Haydock Munnell |
Publisher | Cambridge, Mass. : Ballinger Publishing Company |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780884102632 |
Monograph on the impact of the social security and old age benefit programme on personal saving for retirement in the USA - includes the research methodology. Bibliography pp. 133 to 136, references and statistical tables.
Understanding SSI (Supplemental Security Income)
Title | Understanding SSI (Supplemental Security Income) PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | DIANE Publishing |
Pages | 65 |
Release | 1998-03 |
Genre | Social security |
ISBN | 078814555X |
This publication informs advocates & others in interested agencies & organizations about supplemental security income (SSI) eligibility requirements & processes. It will assist you in helping people apply for, establish eligibility for, & continue to receive SSI benefits for as long as they remain eligible. This publication can also be used as a training manual & as a reference tool. Discusses those who are blind or disabled, living arrangements, overpayments, the appeals process, application process, eligibility requirements, SSI resources, documents you will need when you apply, work incentives, & much more.
Privatizing Social Security
Title | Privatizing Social Security PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Feldstein |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 2008-04-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0226241823 |
This volume represents the most important work to date on one of the pressing policy issues of the moment: the privatization of social security. Although social security is facing enormous fiscal pressure in the face of an aging population, there has been relatively little published on the fundamentals of essential reform through privatization. Privatizing Social Security fills this void by studying the methods and problems involved in shifting from the current system to one based on mandatory saving in individual accounts. "Timely and important. . . . [Privatizing Social Security] presents a forceful case for a radical shift from the existing unfunded, pay-as-you-go single national program to a mandatory funded program with individual savings accounts. . . . An extensive analysis of how a privatized plan would work in the United States is supplemented with the experiences of five other countries that have privatized plans." —Library Journal "[A] high-powered collection of essays by top experts in the field."—Timothy Taylor, Public Interest