Social insurance : America's neglected heritage and contested future /
What has America done to protect its citizens from life-changing but common risks such as death of a family breadwinner, ill health, disability, involuntary unemployment, outliving retirement savings, and birth into a poor family? Each, in its own way, burdens--and possibly devastates--unlucky indiv...
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| Language: | English |
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Thousand Oaks, California :
SAGE/CQ Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Public affairs and policy administration series.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. American social insurance
- Economic risks and social insurance realities
- Assessment of the six threats to family income
- Philosophies, policies, and public budgets
- The historical development of American social insurance and its associated programs
- part 2. Threats and protections
- The threat of birth into a poor family
- The threat of early death of a family breadwinner
- The threat of ill health
- The threat of involuntary unemployment
- The threat of disability
- The threat of outliving one's savings
- part 3. Thinking about the design of income security programs and their reform
- Accomplishments and limitations
- Social insurance, markets, and "modernization."