Neil Howe

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How the Growth in Entitlement Spending Threatens America's Future

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Produktbeschreibung

Entitlements represent one of the largest and fastest-growing portions of the federal budget. They show that the bulk of it does not go to the poor. The majority of the elderly are not needy and dependent. Entitlement programs, not defense spending, consume the largest share of the federal budget.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 462
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351502351
• Artikelnr.: 49259590

Autorenporträt

Neil Howe

Inhaltsangabe

I: Posterity in Danger
1: The Imperiled American Dream
2: The Myths of Entitlements
3: A Fiscal Nightmare
II: The Forces Driving the Projections
4: Driving the Projections: An Aging Society
5: Driving the Projections: Health-Care Hyperinflation
6: Driving the Projections: Indexing
III: From Complacency to Reform
7: Social Security: The End of the Chain Letter
8: The Federal Pension Bonanza
9: Health-Care Policy: Facing the Painful Trade-Offs
Conclusion
10: The Failure of the Libertarian Welfare State