Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach

by Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag

Book Overview

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New in Paperback. While 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 a reform 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. Since the publication of the first edition of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815718373
• ISBN13: 9780815718376
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

A highly recommended ray of hope

Written by the chair of the board of the National Academy of Social Insurance and a former special assistant to the president for economic policy during the Clinton administration, Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach Proposes a reform plan for America's social security system that would save it from both its financial problems and those who would do away with it. Focusing on means that promote long-term balance and sustainable solvency, while protecting the program's benefits for the disabled, low earners, widows, and young survivors. Exhaustively researched and deeply entrenched in practical issues and mathematical calculations, Saving Social Security is a highly recommended ray of hope against a looming national crisis.