Social insurance : America's neglected heritage and contested future / Theodore R. Marmor, Jerry L. Mashaw, John Pakutka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marmor, Theodore R., author.

Mashaw, Jerry L., author.

Pakutka, John, author.

Series:

Sage knowledge.

Public affairs and policy administration series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social security--United States.

Social security.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE/CQ Press, [2014]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

What has America done to protect its citizens from life-changing but common risks such as death of a family breadwinner, ill health, disability, involuntary unemployment, outliving retirement savings, and birth into a poor family? Each, in its own way, burdens--and possibly devastates--unlucky individuals and families both emotionally and financially. It is the rare life that is untouched by one or more of these six threats. How do our current policies affect taxation, spending, and the economy, as well as prospects for individual lives? What more might these policies do to protect Americans? Rich in stories, data, and analysis, Social Insurance provides a strong intellectual foundation for understanding the history, economics, politics, and philosophy of America's most important social insurance programs. This insightful work provides a ...

Contents:

pt. 1. American social insurance

Economic risks and social insurance realities

Assessment of the six threats to family income

Philosophies, policies, and public budgets

The historical development of American social insurance and its associated programs

part 2. Threats and protections

The threat of birth into a poor family

The threat of early death of a family breadwinner

The threat of ill health

The threat of involuntary unemployment

The threat of disability

The threat of outliving one's savings

part 3. Thinking about the design of income security programs and their reform

Accomplishments and limitations

Social insurance, markets, and "modernization."

Notes:

Part of the SAGE Knowledge collection.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-266) and index.

Description based on MARC record for print version.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781544308647

OCLC:

1023801037

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.