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Social Security – A Fresh Look at Policy Alternatives - Hardcover

Gokhale, Jagadeesh

 
9780226300337: Social Security – A Fresh Look at Policy Alternatives
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226300331 ISBN 13: 9780226300337
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2010

Synopsis

Many of us suspect that Social Security faces eventual bankruptcy. But the government projects its future finances using outdated methods. Employing a more up-to-date approach, Jagadeesh Gokhale here argues that the program faces insolvency far sooner than previously thought. To assess Social Security's fate more accurately under current and alternative policies, Gokhale constructs a detailed simulation of the forces shaping American demographics and the economy to project their future evolution. He then uses this simulation to analyze six prominent Social Security reform packages - two liberal, two centrist, and two conservative - to demonstrate how far they would restore the program's financial health and which population groups would be helped or hurt in the process. Arguments over Social Security have raged for decades, but they have taken place in a relative informational vacuum; "Social Security" provides the necessary bedrock of analysis that will prove vital for anyone with a stake in this important debate.

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About the Author

Jagadeesh Gokhale is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and coauthor of Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: New Budget Measures for New Budget Priorities.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226300331
ISBN 13 
9780226300337
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
374