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SOCIAL SECURITY
VISIONS AND REVISIONS: A TWENTIETH CENTURY FUND STUDY |
| By: |
W. Andrew Achenbaum |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£58.00 |
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£50.75 |
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£7.25 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521328667 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521328661 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 May, 1986 |
| Pages: |
314 |
| Description: |
This 1986 book encourages lawmakers, academic experts, and general readers to think more broadly and boldly about social security. |
| Synopsis: |
Franklin Roosevelt envisioned social security to be the cornerstone 'for the kind of protection America wants' from the financial troubles people faced due to old age and family tragedies. By fulfilling its initial promise, social security has evolved into the nation's largest, costliest, and most successful domestic institution. But the optimistic assumptions that inspired its incremental expansion have dissipated in the face of demographic, political, economic, and cultural shifts in American society. Social Security: Visions and Revisions encourages lawmakers, academic experts, and general readers alike to think more broadly and boldly about social security and its relation to public assistance and other income-maintenance and health-care programs. Pulling together information and insights previously scattered and fragmentary, this 1986 book draws lessons from the past that free us of outdated assumptions and unexamined shibboleths. The re-vision of social security that Achenbaum advocates should become the basis of all discussions of government's responsibility to promote 'the general welfare' in our ageing society. |
| Illustrations: |
notes, index |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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