1. Insurance Policy.
- Author
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Hacker, Jacob S.
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SOCIAL security , *SOCIOECONOMICS , *SOCIOECONOMIC factors , *ECONOMIC security , *INCOME maintenance programs , *DOMESTIC economic assistance , *EFFECT of income maintenance programs on labor supply , *ECONOMIC policy ,UNITED States economy, 2001-2009 ,UNITED States economic policy ,UNITED States politics & government, 2001-2009 - Abstract
Presents the author's view on the changes to the American social security system proposed by U.S. President George W. Bush. Review of comments made by Bush during his Republican nomination acceptance speech; View that Bush is proposing an ownership society and changes to Social Security that would shift the risks and costs of the system onto the workers most disadvantaged by the social and economic shifts of the last generation; Suggestion that the major domestic challenge of the twenty-first century is to give workers economic security in a transformed world; View that Republican plans for tackling insecurity continually promise one thing and do another.
- Published
- 2005