Retirement Income


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Pension Reform for Small Business


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Social Security Reform


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Social Security


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This text provides readers with an understanding of the structure and impact of the Social Security program on clients and society. This text discusses the Social Security program's history, characteristics, finances, provisions, and future prospects. It describes the Social Security and Medicare programs' benefits, eligibility requirements, and application processes. It assesses the impact of the Social Security program on family structure and family life and on the poor in society; it also considers unequal treatment of women and the poor. The book provides a framework to assist readers in the analysis of the upcoming crisis in Social Security, as well as means of analyzing various proposed remedies. It summarizes some of the plans for resolving the crisis and assesses the policy implications of those plans, as well as suggesting political strategies for promoting fair and adequate solutions to the program's financial problems.










Improving Data on America's Aging Population


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The Committee on National Statistics and the Committee on Population, at the request of the NIA, convened a workshop in March 1996 to discuss data on the aging population that address the emerging and important social, economic, and health conditions of the older population. The purposes of the workshop were to identify how the population at older ages in the next few decades will differ from the older population today, to understand the underlying causes of those changes, to anticipate future problems and policy issues, and to suggest future needs for data for research in these areas. The scope of the workshop was broader than that of the 1988 CNSTAT report, including not only data on health and long-term care, but also actuarial, economic, demographic, housing, and epidemiological data needs for informing public policy.