A Challenge To Social Security

Author : Richard V. Burkhauser,Karen C. Holden
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483261263

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A Challenge to Social Security by Richard V. Burkhauser,Karen C. Holden Pdf

A Challenge to Social Security: The Changing Roles of Women and Men in American Society is a collection of papers that deals with social security reform. The papers concern insurance and pure income transfer aspects of various proposals and the assumptions regarding the family and work behavior found in each proposal. The proposed reforms attempt to fix the shortcomings of the Old Age, Survivors Insurance (OASI) Program, sometimes at the expense of reducing the subsidy for women who remain at home, or through alterations of the subsidy's nature. Other papers discuss the current spouse benefits under the dual entitlement rule; homemaker credits; child-care drop-out years; and one going against the grain, earnings sharing. One paper sees earning sharing as the only way to provide security to the homemaker without being unfair to the working wife. Other papers tackle the issues of women and a two-tier social security system; the double-decker alternative to eliminate dependency under social security; and the social security reform from a feminist's perspective. This collection can prove useful for economists, sociologists, political scientists, and policy makers involved in welfare and social security.

Author : Rwegoshora, Hossea M. M.
Publisher : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789987082407

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Social Security Challenges in Tanzania by Rwegoshora, Hossea M. M. Pdf

Social security is a basic human right and a fundamental means for creating social cohesion; it is important not only for the well-being of workers, but also for their families and other community members at large. An indispensable part of government social policy, social security is an important tool to alleviate poverty and if well managed can enhance productivity by providing income security and social services. Through a growing economy and active labour market policies, social security serves as an instrument for sustainable social and economic development. Whereas social security is a cost for formal organizations, it is also a future investment for the well-being of the people. With globalization and structural adjustment policies, social security becomes more necessary today than ever. Social Security Challenges in Tanzania: Transforming the Present - Protecting the Future includes a comprehensive overview of social security perspectives at both the international and regional level. The text focuses specifically on Tanzania, analyzing in detail the policy and legal frameworks for social security provision. Engaging and authoritative, it is an essential text for those interested in the evolution, current challenges, and opportunities in addressing the needs of Tanzanians through social security provisions.

Author : Nancy J. Altman,Eric Kingson
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620976234

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Social Security Works For Everyone! by Nancy J. Altman,Eric Kingson Pdf

Social Security expansion is back on the agenda, at a time when Americans need it more than ever—here’s what it should look like (and why it matters to everyday people all over the country) “Altman and Kingson cut through the fog of calculated confusion and outright lies about Social Security.”—David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author The COVID-19 crisis has pulled the curtain back on America’s looming retirement income crisis, a fraying of the national community, and ever-worsening income inequality. Never before have so many people’s livelihoods and futures been thrown into flux. Now more than ever, expanding Social Security is essential to addressing these challenges. Social Security Works for Everyone!, an evolution of the argument Nancy J. Altman and Eric R. Kingson made in their acclaimed first book, Social Security Works!, presents the case for expanding Social Security, explaining why monthly benefits need to be increased; why Americans need national paid family leave, sick leave, and long term care protections; and how we can pay for it all. Don’t believe the nearly four-decade, billionaire-funded campaign to convince us that the program is destined to collapse. It isn’t. At a time when growing numbers of Americans are seeing beyond the false choice between financial security for working people and financial security for the federal government, this book eloquently makes the case that universal programs that benefit all Americans (yes, even the rich) make our country stronger and our lives more secure. Social Security works because it embodies the best of American values—the ones that will allow Americans to obtain financial security and weather the next crisis.

Author : Nancy Altman,Eric Kingson
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620970478

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Social Security Works! by Nancy Altman,Eric Kingson Pdf

A growing chorus of prominent voices in Congress and elsewhere are calling for the expansion of our Social Security system—people who know that Social Security will not “go broke” and does not add a penny to the national debt. Social Security Works! will amplify these voices and offer a powerful antidote to the three-decade-long, billionaire-funded campaign to make us believe that this vital institution is destined to collapse. It isn't. From the Silent Generation to Baby Boomers, from Generation X to Millennials and Generation Z, we all have a stake in understanding the real story about Social Security. Critical to addressing the looming retirement crisis that will affect two- thirds of today's workers, Social Security is a powerful program that can help stop the collapse of the middle class, lessen the pressure squeezing families from all directions, and help end the upward redistribution of wealth that has resulted in perilous levels of inequality. All Americans deserve to have dignified retirement years as well as an umbrella to protect them and their families in the event of disability or premature death. Sure to be a game-changer, Social Security Works! cogently presents the issues and sets forth both an agenda and a political strategy that will benefit us all. At stake are our values and the kind of country we want for ourselves and for those that follow.

Author : Peter Herrmann,Sibel Kalaycioglu
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783867417051

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Precarity - More Than a Challenge of Social Security by Peter Herrmann,Sibel Kalaycioglu Pdf

The present book gathers edited contributions from a conference which had been held end of 2010 in Ankara, Turkey. This event brought together scientists and trade unionists from several EU- and non EU-countries, exploring one of the major, though frequently underestimated challenges of societal integrity. This continuing debate of the experts of the European S.U.P.I.-Network focussed in particular on the more fundamental issues of precarity. As much as precarity is a matter of socio-individual concern, having severe repercussions on the life of an increasing number of people, it is moreover a development that fundamentally challenges. It questions many of the values claimed by enlightenment and capitalist revolutions as universal, including solidarity, mutual support and equality - though they are formally still claimed as valid; and moreover these developments are part of structural changes that easily fissure the contemporary mode of production. Does this mean the end of society? Or could it be a take-off for another renaissance?

Author : Mary Poole
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807877227

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The Segregated Origins of Social Security by Mary Poole Pdf

The relationship between welfare and racial inequality has long been understood as a fight between liberal and conservative forces. In The Segregated Origins of Social Security, Mary Poole challenges that basic assumption. Meticulously reconstructing the behind-the-scenes politicking that gave birth to the 1935 Social Security Act, Poole demonstrates that segregation was built into the very foundation of the welfare state because white policy makers--both liberal and conservative--shared an interest in preserving white race privilege. Although northern white liberals were theoretically sympathetic to the plight of African Americans, Poole says, their primary aim was to save the American economy by salvaging the pride of America's "essential" white male industrial workers. The liberal framers of the Social Security Act elevated the status of Unemployment Insurance and Social Security--and the white workers they were designed to serve--by differentiating them from welfare programs, which served black workers. Revising the standard story of the racialized politics of Roosevelt's New Deal, Poole's arguments also reshape our understanding of the role of public policy in race relations in the twentieth century, laying bare the assumptions that must be challenged if we hope to put an end to racial inequality in the twenty-first.

Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social security
ISBN : UCBK:C080591892

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Social Security by International Labour Office Pdf

In 1999 the Governing Body of the International Labour Office decided that a general discussion on social security should take place at the International Labour Conference in 2001. The objective of this discussion is to establish an ILO vision of social security that, while continuing to be rooted in the basic principles of the ILO, responds to the new issues and challenges facing social security. In a second stage this may lead to the development of new instruments or to the possible updating or revision of existing standards. The Governing Body has identified a number of key issues that should be taken into account in the general discussion in 2001. In this report a chapter is devoted to each of these topics. The report begins by looking at the global context in which social security schemes are now operating and the relevance of social security to the goal of decent work.--Introduction.

Author : Peter A. Diamond
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199247897

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Social Security Reform by Peter A. Diamond Pdf

Also considered are the risks in the political process."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : United States. National Commission on Social Security Reform
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Disability insurance
ISBN : UOM:35128000854883

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Report of the National Commission on Social Security Reform by United States. National Commission on Social Security Reform Pdf

Author : Paul Spicker
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847428103

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How Social Security Works by Paul Spicker Pdf

A broad, accessible introduction to the benefit system in Britain which can help readers to make sense of the system in practice.

Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 9221126242

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Social Security by International Labour Office Pdf

This report offers an in-depth overview of the important, and sometimes controversial, issues surrounding social security in a global context: its relationship to employment and development, its extension in terms of personal coverage, and its contribution to gender equality, as well as its financing. Consisting of resolutions and conclusions drawn from the International Labour Conference, 89th Session, 2001, this book contains the report to the conference - prepared for the general discussion on social security and sets out the key topics and priorities for providing and managing social security systems. Global trends in social security expenditure are covered, as the report addresses such pivotal questions as: Is social security facing an ageing crisis? Is it facing a globalization crisis? Has it reached its limits in terms of affordability? The concept of social dialogue, and its part in strengthening and expanding social security, is also discussed and the report considers how family and local solidarity networks, institutions, enterprises, governments and the international community can help enhance the effectiveness of social security. (ILO Website)

Author : International Labour Office. Social Security Department
Publisher : International Labor Office
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822038150520

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Extending Social Security to All by International Labour Office. Social Security Department Pdf

Social security represents an investment in a country's human infrastructure, which is no less important than its physical infrastructure. This book outlines basic concepts such as the social protection floor and the social security staircase, analyses the affordability of various approaches, and examines the results of practices around the world, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Its second part weighs the pros and cons of conditional cash transfers and, based on a wealth of statistics, argues that effective social transfer programmes not only alleviate poverty, but also improve labour market participation, productivity, nutrition, health care, education, consumption and social inclusion. The overall message is that such investment can benefit poorer countries as well as richer ones, and that even in times of tightened budgets and global economic crisis , the dividends are well worth the expenditure.

Author : Martin Feldstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226241821

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Privatizing Social Security by Martin Feldstein Pdf

This volume represents the most important work to date on one of the pressing policy issues of the moment: the privatization of social security. Although social security is facing enormous fiscal pressure in the face of an aging population, there has been relatively little published on the fundamentals of essential reform through privatization. Privatizing Social Security fills this void by studying the methods and problems involved in shifting from the current system to one based on mandatory saving in individual accounts. "Timely and important. . . . [Privatizing Social Security] presents a forceful case for a radical shift from the existing unfunded, pay-as-you-go single national program to a mandatory funded program with individual savings accounts. . . . An extensive analysis of how a privatized plan would work in the United States is supplemented with the experiences of five other countries that have privatized plans." —Library Journal "[A] high-powered collection of essays by top experts in the field."—Timothy Taylor, Public Interest

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Economic, Governance, and International Studies
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309152013

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Grand Challenges of Our Aging Society by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Economic, Governance, and International Studies Pdf

Aging populations are generating both challenges and opportunities for societies around the globe. Increases in longevity and improvements in health raise many questions. What steps can be taken to optimize physical and cognitive health and productivity across the life span? How will older people finance their retirement and health care? What will be the macroeconomic implications of an aging population? How will communities be shaped by the shift in age structure? What global interconnections will affect how each society handles the aging of its population? To address these questions, the National Academies organized a symposium, summarized in the present volume, to determine how best to contribute to an evidence-based dialogue on population aging that will shape policies and programs. Presentations in the fields of biology, public health, medicine, informatics, macroeconomics, finance, urban planning, and engineering approached the challenges of aging from many different angles. The presenters reviewed the current state of knowledge in their respective fields, identifying areas of consensus and controversy and delineating the priority questions for further research and policy development.

Author : Jane Millar
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1847421865

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Understanding Social Security (Second Edition) by Jane Millar Pdf

The second edition of this important text reviews policy developments since 1997. The chapters have been extensively updated and there are new chapters on social security reform, inequalities and social security, and the new 'welfare market'.