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What has America done to protect its citizens and workers should any of these threats materialize? What more might it do? What might it learn from the experience of other nations? How do the answers the nation has given affect contemporary taxation, spending and the economy, as well as the prospects for individual lives? Social Insurance: America's Neglected Past and Contested Future answers these questions by describing and analyzing the history, economics, politics and philosophy of America's most important social insurance programs. It provides a unifying vision of these programs' purposes,…mehr

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What has America done to protect its citizens and workers should any of these threats materialize? What more might it do? What might it learn from the experience of other nations? How do the answers the nation has given affect contemporary taxation, spending and the economy, as well as the prospects for individual lives? Social Insurance: America's Neglected Past and Contested Future answers these questions by describing and analyzing the history, economics, politics and philosophy of America's most important social insurance programs. It provides a unifying vision of these programs' purposes, notwithstanding their distinctive institutional structures. It reminds us, amidst the confusing and often apocalyptic rhetoric of conventional political debates why we have the programs and policies we do, and argues for reforms that preserves and enhances the protections in place. Rich in stories, data and analysis, this book will provide students-and citizens-with a strong intellectual foundation for understanding the realities behind the rhetoric-and, perhaps, for thinking more cogently about the risks they will encounter in their own lives.
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Theodore (Ted) Marmor is professor emeritus of public policy and management and professor emeritus of political science at Yale University. Marmor is an accomplished author and co-author of eleven books, and has published over a hundred articles in a wide range of scholarly journals. Additionally, he is a frequent Op-Ed contributor to U.S. and Canadian newspapers. Marmor began his career as a special assistant to Wilbur Cohen (Secretary of HEW) in the mid-1960s. He has served as associate dean of Minnesotäs School of Public Affairs, a faculty member at the University of Chicago, the head of Yale¿s Center for Health Services, a member of President Carter¿s Commission on the National Agenda for the 1980s, and a senior social policy advisor to Walter Mondale in the presidential campaign of 1984. He has testified before Congress about medical care reform, social security, and welfare issues, as well as being a consultant to government and non-profit agencies.