This report critically examines the issue of sterilization in the United States based on data from the National Survey of Family Growth, Cycles I and II, spanning the years 1973 to 1976. Of particular concern is analysis of sterilization rates as they vary across categories of race,...

The existing Social Security special minimum benefit, which offers an alternative benefit formula for long-term workers with low levels of wages across many years, has the potential to reduce poverty among the elderly, while rewarding significant numbers of working years. The paper proposes...