عنوان

Saving Social Security :

0815718381 (cloth : alk. paper)

b523092

Saving Social Security :

[Book]

a balanced approach /

Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag

Washington, D.C. :

Brookings Institution Press,

c2004

viii, 287 p. :

ill. ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction -- A brief overview of Social Security -- Goals for Social Security reform -- Social Security's long-term deficit -- A balanced three-part plan to shore up Social Security -- Strengthening Social Security's effectiveness as social insurance -- Implications of our reform plan for benefits and revenue -- Individual accounts -- Questions and answers about our balanced reform plan -- Conclusions -- Appendixes: A. Social Security and national saving -- B. Trends in retirement age -- C. How the legacy debt arose: A simplified example -- D. Characteristics of tax-favored defined-contribution plans -- E. Should the trust fund invest in the stock market? -- F. Comparisons with models 2 and 3 of the President's Commission -- G. Estimated financial effects on Social Security for a proposal developed by Peter Diamond and Peter Orszag

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Old age pensions-- United States

Retirement income-- Government policy-- United States

Social security-- United States

Diamond, Peter A

Orszag, Peter R

20031231120312.0

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