Social Security the Unfinished Work - Blahous, Charles (Hoover Institution Press, 2010)
Front Cover; Copyright; Book Title; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Origins of a Problem; 1. A Memorandum to the President and Congress; 2. 1983: A Temporary Rescue; 3. The Warning Bell Tolls ... and Tolls; Part Two: The Social Security Policy Challenge; 4. Decision Spectrum No. 1: Slowing Benefit Growth VersusRaising Taxes; 5. Decision Spectrum No. 2: Pay-as-you-go VersusAdvance Funding; 6. Decision Spectrum No. 3: How Much Should Social SecurityRedistribute Income?; 7. Decision Spectrum No. 4: Work Incentives
8. Decision Spectrum No. 5: Is There a Role for PersonalAccounts?9. Putting It All Together: Balancing Value Judgments in aComprehensive Plan; Part Three: The Debate Over Solutions; 10. President Bush's Reform Initiative: A Chronology; 11. The Certainty and Severity of the Social Security Shortfall; 12. President Bush's Reform Initiative: The Policy Controversies; 13. Seizing the Common Ground; 14. We Must Do Better; Notes; About the Author; Index
Arguing that an equitable Social Security solution will be unattainable unless we bring stakeholders together around a common understanding of the facts and of the need to take action to address them, former White House adviser Charles Blahous presents some often misunderstood, basic factual background about Social Security. He discusses how it affects program participants and explains the true demographic, economic, and political factors that threaten its future efficacy
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-419) and index