Social Security and the Family: Addressing Unmet Needs in an Underfunded System

by C. Eugene Steuerle, Melissa M. Favreault, Frank Sammartino

As the baby boom generation gets closer to retirement, the debate over Social Security reform becomes more urgent. Unfortunately, policymakers remain fixated on individual accounts and other ways for the system to accumulate more savings. This narrow focus ignores an equally important, if not more important, challenge--how to address the needs of those who have been left out as demographics and work habits have changed the structure of the American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087766708X
• ISBN13: 9780877667087
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 382 Pages