Social Insurance: America's Neglected Heritage and Contested Future

by Theodore R. Marmor, Jerry L. Mashaw, John Pakutka

Book Overview

What has America done to protect its citizens from life-changing but common risks such as death of a family breadwinner, ill health, disability, involuntary unemployment, outliving retirement savings, and birth into a poor family? Each, in its own way, burdens--and possibly devastates--unlucky individuals and families both emotionally and financially. It is the rare life that is untouched by one or more of these six threats. How do our current policies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1452240000
• ISBN13: 9781452240008
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: CQ Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"