Social Security: Beyond the Rhetoric of Crisis

Book Overview

What are the possibilities and prospects for Social Security over the decades ahead? The essays in this interdisciplinary study explore what social insurance has meant historically, socially, economically, politically, and legally in the years since the founding of the American social security system in 1935. Questions examined include: Does Social Security have a coherent and defendable ideology? If so, is that ideology adequate to the demands...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691606536
• ISBN13: 9780691606538
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"