Social security and the middle-class squeeze : fact and fiction about America's entitlement programs /
Santow, Leonard Jay.
Social security and the middle-class squeeze : fact and fiction about America's entitlement programs / Leonard J. Santow and Mark E. Santow ; foreword byHenry Kaufman. - Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, c2005. - xiii, 216 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-205) and index.
A practitioner and a historian combine ideas -- Government and the promise of American life -- The middle class and the American dream -- Explaining and analyzing are not enough -- New ways to look at social security, Medicare and Medicaid -- Misconceptions and myths about social security -- Government cannot legislate investment success -- Big budget deficits--not good for stocks and privatization -- Let's talk politics -- Forecasting by the trustees--flaws and recommendations -- Social security around the world -- Some parting thoughts.
0275988813 : HRD $34.95 9780275988814
Greenwood Pub Group, C/O Harcourt Education 465 S Lincoln Dr, Troy, MO, USA, 63379, (203)2263571-3352 SAN 210-5829
2005017485
Social security--United States.
Medicare.
Medicaid.
Entitlement spending--United States.
Middle class--Economic conditions.--United States
HD7125 / .S26 2005
368.4/3/00973
Social security and the middle-class squeeze : fact and fiction about America's entitlement programs / Leonard J. Santow and Mark E. Santow ; foreword byHenry Kaufman. - Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, c2005. - xiii, 216 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-205) and index.
A practitioner and a historian combine ideas -- Government and the promise of American life -- The middle class and the American dream -- Explaining and analyzing are not enough -- New ways to look at social security, Medicare and Medicaid -- Misconceptions and myths about social security -- Government cannot legislate investment success -- Big budget deficits--not good for stocks and privatization -- Let's talk politics -- Forecasting by the trustees--flaws and recommendations -- Social security around the world -- Some parting thoughts.
0275988813 : HRD $34.95 9780275988814
Greenwood Pub Group, C/O Harcourt Education 465 S Lincoln Dr, Troy, MO, USA, 63379, (203)2263571-3352 SAN 210-5829
2005017485
Social security--United States.
Medicare.
Medicaid.
Entitlement spending--United States.
Middle class--Economic conditions.--United States
HD7125 / .S26 2005
368.4/3/00973