"An excellent analysis of the Social Security system... Path breaking in its recommendations... highly useful guide to reform whatever one's political convictions."
—Stanford G. Ross
Social Security Commissioner, 1978-1979
"Although I disagree with some of the analysis and some of the recommendations, this is an important and stimulating book. I recommend it to all serious students of Social Security."
—Robert M. Ball
Social Security Commissioner, 1962-1973
"This book is undoubtedly the most comprehensive analysis of the very-long-range financing problems confronting the Social Security program... should be compulsory reading for those prophets of gloom and doom who assert that the program should be scrapped."
—Robert J. Myers
Chief Actuary, Social Security Administration, 1947-1970 Executive Director, National Commission on Social Security Reform, 1982-1983
"Should become the standard reference work on Social Security... Lucid, comprehensive, yet concise."
—Neil Howe
Coauthor of Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584-2069
