Understanding the Social Security ACT: The Foundation of Social Welfare for America in the Twenty-First Century

by Andrew W. Dobelstein

Book Overview

The future of the United States' social welfare commitments, including retirement and disability payments, unemployment insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, and the State Child Health Insurance Program, poses urgent questions as social and demographic change in the country accelerates. Yet even many social welfare policy experts fail to grasp the sheer size and intricacy of the Social Security Act, which governs those commitments, and the resulting complexity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195366891
• ISBN13: 9780195366891
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"