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Research Report Income Support and Social Services for Low-Income People in New York
The state reports describe the safety net and health care programs in place for low-income people on the eve of welfare reform. The reports also analyze the particular circumstances that are shaping the state's response to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)
Brief Nix Social Security Use of Stocks
[Newsday] Historically, Social Security trust funds have invested only in government bonds. President Bill Clinton would like them also to invest in corporate stocks. The stocks are expected to yield a higher return than bonds, thus postponing the date at which the trust fund is exhausted by the
Testimony General Revenue Financing of Social Security
It is ironic that the legacy that baby boomers would now bequeath is one in which almost the sole purpose of the federal government would be to care for their own consumption needs in retirement. I do not believe this legacy is intended. Yet it would come about under current law, under the President
Research Report A Government Match for Private Pension Saving?
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle examines the 1999 Clinton Administration proposal to create "USA" savings accounts. He concludes that the proposal for a match is one way to try to encourage greater saving, especially among the middle class, but that to be effective, a much more delicate crafting of
Testimony The Impact of Social Security on Today's Children
The greatest difficulty with today's budget policy is not whether either the surplus or revenues are too large or too small, but that the law itself would deny to posterity both the right and the privilege to decide for itself the priorities and needs facing the nation.
Research Report "Spending" the Surplus: Counting the Ways
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle considers the math behind President Clinton's proposal to spend 62 percent of the surplus on Social Security, with another share to be allocated to Medicare, and that the remaining share be spent on other items, including a subsidy for new private pension accounts.