| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Saving Social security/ Peter A. Diamond, Peter R. Orszag. |
| Reminder of title: |
a balanced approach / |
| Author: |
Diamond, Peter A. |
| other author: |
Orszag, Peter R. |
| Published: |
Washington, D.C. :Brookings Institution Press, : c2004., |
| Description: |
viii, 287 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
A brief overview of Social Security -- Goals for Social Security reform -- Social Security's long-term deficit -- A balanced three-part plan to shore up Social Security -- Strengthening Social Security's effectiveness as social insurance -- Implications of our reform plan for benefits and revenue -- Individual accounts -- Questions and answers about our balanced reform plan -- Conclusions -- Appendixes: A. Social Security and national saving -- B. Trends in retirement age -- C. How the legacy debt arose: A simplified example -- D. Characteristics of tax-favored defined-contribution plans -- E. Should the trust fund invest in the stock market? -- F. Comparisons with models 2 and 3 of the President's Commission -- G. Memorandum from the Office of the Chief Actuary. |
| Subject: |
Old age pensions - United States. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=112206An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0815796234 (electronic bk.) |