Bibliograph

Social security, visions and revisions, W. Andrew Achenbaum

Type

Label

Social security, visions and revisions, W. Andrew Achenbaum

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Social security

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

795236161

Responsibility statement

W. Andrew Achenbaum

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

visions and revisions

Summary

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and insights previously scattered and fragmentary, this 1986 book draws lessons from the past that free us of outdated assumptions and unexamined shibboleths.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.--, Provided by publisher

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