The new politics of old age policy /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hudson, Robert B., 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Contemporary challenges to age-based policy
  • A normative defense of universal age-based public policy
  • What justice requires : a normative foundation for U.S. pension reform
  • Decreasing welfare, increasing old age inequality : whose responsibility is it?
  • Social Security and the paradoxes of welfare state conservatism
  • When old age begins : implications for health, work, and retirement
  • Minority workers and pathways to retirement
  • The oldest old and a long-lived society : challenges for public policy
  • Reframing Social Security : cures worse than the disease
  • Sustaining Medicare as an age-related program
  • The politics of aging within Medicaid
  • The changing face of senior housing
  • The contemporary politics of old age policies
  • Using local tax levies to fund programs for older people : good politics and good policy?