Год выпуска: 2003 Автор: Peter A. Diamond Издательство: Страниц: 0 ISBN: 0815718381
Описание
Book DescriptionWhile everyone agrees that Social Security is a vital and necessary government program, there have been widely divergent plans for reforming it. Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag, two of the nation?s foremost economists, propose areform plan that would rescue the program both from its projected financial problems and from those who would destroy the program in order to save it. Saving Social Security?s strategy balances benefit and revenue adjustments, following the precedent set by the last major Social Security reform in the early 1980s. The authors? proposal restores long-term balance and sustainable solvency to the program without imposing additional burdens on the rest of the budget. Further, it protects disability and young survivor benefits and strengthens Social Security?s protections for low earners and widows. Most important, the plan preserves the program?s core social insurance role by providing a base-level of assured...
