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For most of its working life—which began in 1935—the social security system has been the most popular and creditable social program in the United States. Its benefits have grown over the years—and not only in nominal terms, but in real ones as well. Public trust in its soundness has been as close to universal as its coverage, which now stands at nearly 94 percent of the working population. By the early 1970s, however, serious cracks in the financial underpinnings of the system began to be widely noted. The crisis of public confidence that developed—with some clamoring to get out of the system altogether—realistically reflected financial difficulties that are apt to persist through the first half of the twenty-first century, based on current projections of declining birth rates (causing a higher retiree/worker ratio) and productivity growth rates. <p><i>Social Security Financing</i> faces up to these and related problems and proposes a range of workable solutions, including alternative methods for financing the system that would overhaul its entire fiscal structure. The book—which is based on an intensive study sponsored by the Social Security Administration and conducted by Mathema

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Author

Felicity Skidmore

Publisher

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262191968

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Military, Management, Finance