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A nation of takers : America's entitlement epidemic / Nicholas Eberstadt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eberstadt, Nick, 1955-
- Series:
- New threats to freedom series.
- New threats to freedom series
- New Threats to Freedom Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Entitlement spending--United States.
- Entitlement spending.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (145 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- West Conshohocken, Pa. : Templeton Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In A Nation of Takers: America's Entitlement Epidemic, one of our country's foremost demographers, Nicholas Eberstadt, details the exponential growth in entitlement spending over the past fifty years. As he notes, in 1960, entitlement payments accounted for well under a third of the federal government's total outlays. Today, entitlement spending accounts for a full two-thirds of the federal budget. Drawing on an impressive array of data and employing a range of easy- to- read, four color charts, Eberstadt shows the unchecked spiral of spending on a range of entitlements, eve
- Contents:
- pt. I. America's growing dependency on government entitlements
- pt. II. Dissenting points of view.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781283692038
- 1283692031
- 9781599474366
- 1599474360
- OCLC:
- 817224581
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