"This latest installment in the Pension Research Council series brings together a wealth of information for those concerned with public policy options. . . .The book is substantive. . . . It provides data, estimates, models, and a framework to help readers think about the underlying problems in the system."--Industrial and Labor Relations Review The United States social security system is the nation's largest social insurance program. As such, it has a far-reaching impact throughout the economy, influencing not only old-age economic security but also many behaviors, including corporate...

Recent reports predict that, barring any changes, the Social Security program will become insolvent--no longer able to pay promised benefits in full--around the year 2030, well within the retirement years of the baby boom generation. They also predict that the trust fund will stop being a net contributor and become instead a net claimant on the federal budget in the year 2013--much earlier than previously thought. With the world population aging, the increasing number of dependent senior citizens in all countries will become a major public policy issue that will have to be addressed...

The promise of a genuine Cervantes manuscript is the ravishing lure in this adroitly constructed and literate mystery tale. A nine-year old child and her nanny are destroyed in a terrorist (?) bomb blast in the Seville airport. A brutal fisherman disappears at sea in a boat his fishing alone could not buy. His mutterings about an "Operation Cervantes" baffle his mistress (a novelist he cannot understand much less control). Rumors of the availability of the first six chapters of Don Quixote in Cervantes's hand ruffle the greedy rare book market. A discovery like this is something scholars know...