San Antonio College Library

"Official documents of social security, 1935-65": pages 288-294.

"Presents the case for expanding Social Security, explaining why monthly benefits need to be increased, and why Americans need national paid family leave, sick leave, and long term care protections"--

"Blahous contends that Social Security is ill-equipped to withstand the effects of an aging population and will impose excessive tax burdens upon future Americans unless its course is changed. Far from a doomsday tract, however, the book provides instances of proposals that would satisfactorily avert this course, if only the political will is mustered to implement them. Blahous argues for the program developed by the National Commission on Retirement...

Tanner (Cato Project on Social Security Choice) brings together work by leaders in Social Security reform, examining problems of the current system and offering proposals for reform. Contributors in economics, law, and philosophy, many affiliated with the Cato Institute, examine aspects of the problem related to issues such as property rights, the impact of Social Security reform on low-income workers, and how stock market declines affect the reform...

"Covering six decades through the beginning of the current century, Beland chronicles how Social Security and the controversy surrounding its solvency have evolved, offering along the way new insights into its past, present, and future. His balanced perspective will help readers understand and evaluate partisan arguments on both sides of the issue. Beland reconstructs the political history of Social Security, describes the impact of subsequent amendments...

Bringing the politics and policy of the current Social Security debate to light, a study of the controversy describes the workings of the system while evaluating the history and ingenious structure of the program as set forth by President Roosevelt.

In a book remarkably free of technical or social science jargon, Max J. Skidmore demonstrates exactly why Social Security is not in danger of going bankrupt and proposes a series of incremental adjustments that will allow the system to support future generations even better. Social Security and Its Enemies shows that far from being a system on the verge of collapse, Social Security in fact does exactly what it was created to do keep America's aged...

Skidmore (political science, U. of Missouri) presents an expanded and updated version of his earlier Social Security and Its Enemies. He describes the political history of the Social Security program and provides detail on how it is structured in order to correct the disinformation of those who seek to destroy it. He argues that not only is Social Security fundamentally sound, but that it can be improved by making its financing, rather than just its...