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The good life and its discontents : the American dream in the age of entitlement, 1945-1995 / by Samuelson, Robert J.(CARDINAL)209962;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-277) and index.
Subjects: Entitlement spending;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Will America grow up before it grows old? / by Peterson, Peter G.(CARDINAL)193934;
Subjects: Budget deficits; Debts, Public; Entitlement spending;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Will America grow up before it grows old? : how the coming social security crisis threatens you, your family, and your country / by Peterson, Peter G.(CARDINAL)193934;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index.
Subjects: Entitlement spending; Debts, Public; Budget deficits;
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On borrowed time : how the growth in entitlement spending threatens America's future / by Peterson, Peter G.(CARDINAL)193934; Howe, Neil.(CARDINAL)771789;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Entitlement spending; Budget deficits; Economic forecasting;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The high cost of good intentions : a history of U.S. federal entitlement programs / by Cogan, John F.,author.(CARDINAL)508693;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-477) and index.Introduction -- Creating legislative precedents : Revolutionary War pensions -- An experiment with government trust funds : Navy pensions -- The first great entitlement : Civil War pensions -- Repeating past mistakes : World War I veterans' benefits -- Retrenchment : Roosevelt and the veterans -- The birth of the modern entitlement state -- The consequences of social security surpluses -- A new kind of entitlement : the GI Bill -- Setting the postwar entitlement agenda, 1946-1950 -- Establishing social insurance dominance, 1951-1964 -- The beginning of the great turn in welfare policy, 1951-1964 -- The first Great Society -- A legal right to welfare -- The second Great Society -- First inklings of fiscal limits, 1975-1980 -- A temporary slowdown, 1981-1989 -- Recognition and denial, 1989-2014 -- A challenge unlike any in U.S. history.Federal entitlement programs are strewn throughout the pages of U.S. history, springing from the noble purpose of assisting people who are destitute through no fault of their own. Yet as federal entitlement programs have grown, so too have their inefficiency and their cost. Neither tax revenues nor revenues generated by the national economy have been able to keep pace with their rising growth, bringing the national debt to a record peace-time level. The High Cost of Good Intentions is the first comprehensive history of these federal entitlement programs. Combining economics, history, political science, and law, John F. Cogan reveals how the creation of entitlements brings forth a steady march of liberalizing forces that cause entitlement programs to expand. In this process -- as visible in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as in the present day -- each benefit expansion establishes a new base for future expansions and the entitlement ultimately spreads to a point where the program's original noble purposes are no longer recognizable. His work provides a unifying explanation for the evolutionary path that nearly all federal entitlement programs have followed over the past two hundred years, tracing both their shared past and the financial risks they pose for future generations.
Subjects: Entitlement spending; Public welfare; Social security;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Running on empty : how the Democratic and Republican Parties are bankrupting our future and what Americans can do about it / by Peterson, Peter G.(CARDINAL)193934;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-239).
Subjects: Budget deficits; Budget; Entitlement spending; Fiscal policy; Government spending policy;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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The return of thrift : how the coming collapse of the middle-class welfare state will reawaken values in America / by Longman, Phillip.(CARDINAL)188071;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-230) and index.
Subjects: Entitlement spending; Saving and investment; Middle class;
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Social security and the middle-class squeeze : fact and fiction about America's entitlement programs / by Santow, Leonard Jay.(CARDINAL)765989; Santow, Mark E.,1967-(CARDINAL)473446;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-205) and index.A 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.
Subjects: Entitlement spending; Medicaid.; Medicare.; Middle class; Social security;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Community development block grant entitlement regulations : hearing before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, December 7, 1982. by United States.Congress.House.Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs.Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development.(CARDINAL)286372;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Block grants; Community development; Entitlement spending;
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Entitlement [large print] / by Alam, Rumaan,author.(CARDINAL)502288;
Brooke wants. She isn't in need, but there are things she wants. A sense of purpose, for instance. She wants to make a difference in the world, to impress her mother along the way, to spend time with friends and secure her independence. Her job assisting an octogenarian billionaire in his quest to give away a vast fortune could help her achieve many of these goals. It may inspire new desires as well: proximity to wealth turns out to be nothing less than transformative. What is money, really, but a kind of belief?
Subjects: Large print books.; Novels.; Billionaires; Rich people; Wealth; Entitlement attitudes; Endowments; Ethics; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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