:America's Neglected Heritage and Contested Future
/ Theodore R. Marmor, Jerry L. Mashaw, John Pakutka
Los Angeles
: Sage Publications,Inc
, 2014.
xxv, 299 p
: ill
(Public affairs and policy administration series)
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Index
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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 3. Thinking about the design of income security programs and their reform -- Accomplishments and limitations -- Social insurance, markets, and "modernization."