A Well-Tailored Safety Net
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A Well-Tailored Safety Net

The Only Fair and Sensible Way to Save Social Security

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  2. English
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eBook - PDF

A Well-Tailored Safety Net

The Only Fair and Sensible Way to Save Social Security

About this book

This intriguing book introduces the first Social Security reform proposal tailored to meet the nation's fiscal challenges and care for an aging population.

Tackling one of the most difficult and divisive issues facing America today, A Well-Tailored Safety Net: The Only Fair and Sensible Way to Save Social Security seeks to transform the political debate over Social Security reform by introducing the first proposal tailored to meet both the nation's fiscal challenges and the responsibility of caring for an aging population.

As the first batch of 77 million baby boomers begins to collect its social security benefits in the midst of the explosion of national debt from economic recovery expenditures, Social Security reform becomes increasingly urgent. Jed Graham takes apart each of the current leading proposals and shows how all of them fall short by the key criteria of affordability, effectiveness, and fairness. Graham proposes a bold new approach that would erase more debt than any other proposal, yet avoid benefit cuts in very old age, when people can least afford them. Short on actuary speak and long on common sense, A Well-Tailored Safety Net makes the Social Security debate accessible to general readers. At the same time, it advances innovative solutions with such command of analytic detail and ideological impartiality as to merit serious study by legislators and policymakers.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780313381690
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9780313381706
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
American Government
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. List of Figures
  5. List of Tables
  6. Preface
  7. A Note on the Numbers in This Book
  8. Part I Defining an Urgent Problem
  9. Introduction
  10. Highlights of A Well-Tailored Safety Net Social Security Reform Proposal
  11. Chapter 1: A ‘‘Very False Sense of Security’’
  12. Chapter 2: ‘‘A Political Fraud’’
  13. Chapter 3: The Price of Delay
  14. Part II No Easy Answers
  15. Chapter 4: ‘‘A Bad Idea’’
  16. Chapter 5: ‘‘It’s Kind of Muddled’’
  17. Chapter 6: Cold Comfort
  18. Chapter 7: A No-Brainer
  19. Chapter 8: A Crack in the Foundation
  20. Chapter 9: A Fix That Doesn’t Fix Very Much
  21. Part III Principles for Reform
  22. Chapter 10: A Bad Comb-Over
  23. Chapter 11: The Problem is Part of the Solution
  24. Chapter 12: ‘‘The Obvious Thing To Do’’
  25. Chapter 13: A Bridge Too Far
  26. Chapter 14: The Hilda & David and Irene & Bernie Tests
  27. Part IV Laying Out a Solution
  28. Chapter 15: Old-Age Risk-Sharing
  29. Chapter 16: A Fair and Constructive Sacrifice
  30. Chapter 17: A Helping Hand, Not an Empty Promise
  31. Chapter 18: A Well-Tailored Account Structure
  32. Chapter 19: Measuring Up
  33. Conclusion: Key Findings To Guide SocialSecurity Reform
  34. Appendix 1 Details of A Well-Tailored Safety Net Social Security Reform Plan
  35. Appendix 2 Solvency Impact of A Well-Tailored Safety Net, Billions of 2009 Dollars
  36. Notes
  37. Index
  38. About the Author

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