Social Security : The Unfinished Work

Front Cover -- Copyright -- Book Title -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Origins of a Problem -- 1. A Memorandum to the President and Congress -- 2. 1983: A Temporary Rescue -- 3. The Warning Bell Tolls . . . and Tolls -- Part Two: The Social Security Policy Challenge -- 4. Decision Spectrum No. 1: Slowing Benefit Growth Versus Raising Taxes -- 5. Decision Spectrum No. 2: Pay-as-you-go Versus Advance Funding -- 6. Decision Spectrum No. 3: How Much Should Social Security Redistribute Income? -- 7. Decision Spectrum No. 4: Work Incentives -- 8. Decision Spectrum No. 5: Is There a Role for Personal Accounts? -- 9. Putting It All Together: Balancing Value Judgments in a Comprehensive Plan -- Part Three: The Debate Over Solutions -- 10. President Bush's Reform Initiative: A Chronology -- 11. The Certainty and Severity of the Social Security Shortfall -- 12. President Bush's Reform Initiative: The Policy Controversies -- 13. Seizing the Common Ground -- 14. We Must Do Better -- Notes -- About the Author -- Index.