Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2005: Meeting the Long-Run Challenge

by Alice M. Rivlin

Book Overview

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The retirement of the baby boom generation will create spiraling costs for health care and pension programs. Combined with lower revenues, these developments will lead to a decline in economic growth if nothing is done. In this second volume of Restoring Fiscal Sanity, a group of policy experts focus on how to bring spending and revenues in line over the next decade, and even more important, how to balance them over the longer term. They suggest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815774915
• ISBN13: 9780815774914
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 8.9"