Is It Time to Reform Social Security?

Social Security is now the federal government's largest, and probably its most popular, program. It has performed well and grown hugely over the twentieth century, with the trust fund that pays benefits generally being kept financially solvent and paying people a decent return on their contribu...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: University of Michigan Press 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover13;
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Mending, but Not Ending, Social Security
  • 2. Social Security in the Twentieth Century
  • 3. Social Security in the Twenty-first Century
  • 4. The Goals of Reform
  • 5. New Approaches
  • 6. Looking Outward
  • Appendix: Publicly Held Individual Accounts
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.