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050 00 $aHD7125$b.S26 2005
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100 1 $aSantow, Leonard Jay.
245 10 $aSocial security and the middle-class squeeze :$bfact and fiction about America's entitlement programs /$cLeonard J. Santow and Mark E. Santow ; foreword byHenry Kaufman.
260 $aWestport, Conn. :$bPraeger Publishers,$cc2005.
300 $axiii, 216 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [197]-205) and index.
505 0 $aA practitioner and a historian combine ideas -- Government and the promise of American life -- The middle class and the American dream -- Explaining and analyzing are not enough -- New ways to look at social security, Medicare and Medicaid -- Misconceptions and myths about social security -- Government cannot legislate investment success -- Big budget deficits--not good for stocks and privatization -- Let's talk politics -- Forecasting by the trustees--flaws and recommendations -- Social security around the world -- Some parting thoughts.
650 0 $aSocial security$zUnited States.
650 0 $aMedicare.
650 0 $aMedicaid.
650 0 $aEntitlement spending$zUnited States.
650 0 $aMiddle class$zUnited States$xEconomic conditions.
700 1 $aSantow, Mark E.,$d1967-
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