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Reforming social security for ourselves and our posterity

Author: Charles P Blahous
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger ; Washington, D.C. : Published in cooperation with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2000.
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Blahous, Charles P., 1963-
Reforming social security for ourselves and our posterity.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger ; Washington, D.C. : Published in cooperation with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2000
(OCoLC)654780837
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Charles P Blahous
ISBN: 0275970442 9780275970444
OCLC Number: 43706634
Description: xviii, 262 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: The view from the future --
Challenges to the culture of entitlement --
The political inheritance of social security --
The Kerrey-Danforth Commission --
Social security: its purposes and how it works --
The Trustees' reports and what they say: beyond actuarial solvency --
Dissecting the Trustees' assumptions --
A cottage industry of demagogues --
Into the lion's den with the AARP --
The congressional debate evolves: 1994-1997 --
A divided advisory council united behind advance funding --
Where will future benefits come from? A sound and fair system --
To fund or not to fund? Personal accounts or government investment --
The top ten tricks in the social security debate --
Tackling the policy challenges of personal accounts --
Putting it all together: how a reformed system can work --
Reaching agreement with the NCRP --
Slings and arrows --
1998-1999: The President's year of discussion; then more discussion --
Congress reacts to the President's proposals --
The last, best hopes: the Senate bipartisan plan and other efforts --
Where we are and whither we are tending.
Responsibility: Charles P. Blahous III.

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