Social Security

Since the 1970s early exit from work has become a major challenge in modern welfare states. Governments, employers, and unions alike once thought of early retirement as a peaceful solution to the economic problems of mass unemployment and industrial...

`This is an important and timely book not least in considering the EU's inchoate social regime alongside established national systems, that draws attentionto the subtle, yet often neglected, ways in which welfare systems unwittingly distort the lives of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815758952Author Alicia H. MunnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815700432Author Henry AaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454g

For more than a decade, Alexis Lerner combed the alleyways, underpasses, and public squares of cities once under communist rule, from Berlin in the west to Vladivostok in the east, recording thousands of cases of critical and satirical political street...

The Social Security Handbook: Overview of Social Security Programs, 2022 provides information about Social Security programs and services, and identifies rights and obligations under the Social Security laws.The completely updated Handbook, organized by...

The first comprehensive map of the social safety net, public and private, in the United States. Societies are often judged by how they treat their most vulnerable members: the poor and near poor. In the United States, this responsibility belongs not...

For more than a decade, Alexis Lerner combed the alleyways, underpasses, and public squares of cities once under communist rule, from Berlin in the west to Vladivostok in the east, recording thousands of cases of critical and satirical political street...

A funny, smart, and engaging book on Social Security? You bet! Let Bill and Betty Boomer, their parents Ed and Ethel Elderly, and the young married Steve and Sue Sprout take you through the thickets of this thorny issue. You will come to understand why...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617614309Author Nicole E PampinoFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 438g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600210501Author Hand HansenFormat HardbackPage Count 145Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 594g

An examination of the conditions that underlie state-sponsored crimes against humanity.An examination of the conditions that underlie state-sponsored crimes against humanity.About the AuthorPatricia Marchak, former dean of arts and professor emerita,...

A funny, smart, and engaging book on Social Security? You bet! Let Bill and Betty Boomer, their parents Ed and Ethel Elderly, and the young married Steve and Sue Sprout take you through the thickets of this thorny issue. You will come to understand why...

Many of us suspect that Social Security faces eventual bankruptcy. But the government projects its future finances using outdated methods. Employing a more up-to-date approach, Jagadeesh Gokhale here argues that the program faces insolvency far sooner...

Social security reform in the United States continues to be a pressing and contentious issue, with advocates touting some form of a centralized or a privatized system of personal accounts. In general, centralized systems offer low administrative costs,...

Social Security in the United States and in Europe is at a critical juncture. Through essays assembled in "Social Security Pension Reform in Europe", Martin Feldstein and Horst Siebert, along with a number of distinguished contributors, discuss the...

When Movements Matter accounts for the origins of Social Security as we know it. The book tells the overlooked story of the Townsend Plan--a political organization that sought to alleviate poverty and end the Great Depression through a...

The reform of social security pensions and healthcare is a key issue for the modern world, and in many ways Latin America has acted as a social laboratory for the reform of these systems. From the reforms that took place in Chile in 1981, most pension...

This important book by an experienced authority on social security discusses a subject of vital interest to governments and peoples everywhere. In all countries social security in still experimental, its principles and menthods are being actively...

The Social Security program pays benefits to retired and disabled workers and their family members, and to family members of deceased workers. The Social Security program is financed primarily through payroll taxes that are deposited in the U.S. Treasury...

Social security is the largest and perhaps the most popular program run by the federal government. Given the projected increase in both individual life expectancy and sheer number of retirees, however, the current system faces an eventual overload...

The Social Security Handbook: Overview of Social Security Programs, 2023 provides information about Social Security programs and services, and identifies rights and obligations under the Social Security laws. The completely updated Handbook, organized by...

Since the 1970s early exit from work has become a major challenge in modern welfare states. Governments, employers, and unions alike once thought of early retirement as a peaceful solution to the economic problems of mass unemployment and industrial...

First published in 1982, British Dogmatism and French Pragmatism presents an inquiry into how national political and administrative constraints affect the formulation and implementation of local government reform. This comparative study between British...

Security Studies: An Introduction, 4th edition, is the most comprehensive textbook available on the subject, providing students with in-depth coverage of traditional and critical approaches and an essential grounding in the debates, frameworks, and...

Presenting a truly comprehensive history of Basic Income, Malcolm Torry explores the evolution of the concept of a regular unconditional income for every individual, as well as examining other types of income as they relate to its history. Examining the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817911942Author Charles BlahousFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Publisher Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 869g

Is it true that the Social Security system is in serious trouble and must be repaired? As baby boomers begin to retire, will they inevitably, by force of their sheer numbers, bankrupt the system? Is Social Security a big Ponzi scheme that will leave...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838217062Author Stamatia DevetziFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonPublisher ibidem-Verlag, Jessica...

This volume presents one of the pressing policy issues of the moment: the privatization of social security. While social security encounters enormous fiscal pressure in the face of an ageing population, there has been relatively little published on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817999728Author David KoitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Publisher Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 150g

First published in 1997, this volume aimed to study social care services as a specific type of social policy that operates on a different set of principles as supportive services rather than as poor relief or social security work. The focus is on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815702399Author William G. GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 585gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815718352Author Peter A. DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815718239Author Martha DerthickFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDaniel Beland is associate professor of sociology at the University of Calgary.ReviewsA theoretically informed, historically accurate, and valuable guide to...

For millions of Africans, the social situation is dire. Over half of the population of Sub-Sahara Africa do not have access to improved sanitation facilities, and about a quarter are undernourished. If factors such as armed conflicts in the region, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815731177Author William G. GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815701538Author R. Douglas ArnoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

This timely 2 volume edited collection looks at the extent and nature of global jihad, focusing on the often-exoticised hinterlands of jihad beyond the traditionally viewed Middle Eastern 'centre'. As ISIS loses its footing in Syria and Iraq and al-Qaeda...