For more than 25 years, the Social Security Trust Fund has been projected to run out of money in 2033 (give or take a few years), potentially causing benefits to be severely reduced in the absence of corrective legislative action. Today (February 2024), projections are made by the Social...

This paper investigates the possibilities and restrictions of intergenerational income development for aging and stagnating economies. In a first step, the basic logic of aging will be investigated in a simple dynamic model. In particular, the investigation points out the existence of the...

This paper discusses recent policy trends in Canada, the changing role of the various actors in the system, international comparisons and a range of other social policy topics. The immediate purpose of the paper is to examine the reasons why social policy analysts need to look to the future and...

Illegal immigration has become a grave concern for the United States. The wave of the influx into the United States has been like a tsunami with cities struggling with how to deal with this issue. The poor certainly are welcome; however, it is not just about guest workers, but terrorist, human...

This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...

The government's 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review was anything but comprehensive. The cuts to government spending were modest, and large swathes of state activity were barely touched. Britain will remain a heavily regulated, high-tax, high-spend economy. Instead of totally reviewing the...

This hard hitting response to the UK Government consultation on On Enabling Investment In Productive Finance comes just a few months after the modification of the charge cap, and concerns a proposal to exempt certain classes of illiquid private investments from the DC charge cap.The authors make...

This new edited collection brings together historians and social scientists to engage with the global history of Universal Basic Income (UBI) and offer historically-rich perspectives on contemporary debates about the future of work. In particular, the book goes beyond a genealogy of a seemingly...