Product Description: In Lessons from Joan, Eric R. Kingson tells how his late wife's strength, warmth, humor, and love-and those of many people they met along the way-helped extend life and make it worth living. It is about the fear, hope, and intensity of their lives during the thirty-two months that followed Joan's cancer diagnosis and how Joan and her husband and children maintained their family life during this time...read more

Product Description: Hayes analyzes the situation of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. and what happens to them in the aftermath of implementation of two key provisions of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) legalization and employer sanctions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Recent policy debates about the future of Social Security and Medicare have been dominated by the issue of personal versus societal responsibility. Significant changes now being considered would increase the level of privatization and tilt these programs away from defined benefit toward defined contribution models...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As the ranks of the elderly continue to swell and their social welfare becomes a complex and contentious policy issue, how will the United States balance the conflicting demographic and economic demands of providing for its older citizens―especially in light of the anticipated economic burden of the baby boom generation's impending retirement? These problems place the destiny of Social Security and health care at the epicenter of political discussion and debate, making a balanced perspective on these issues essential―particularly as the lives of millions of future Americans will be affected...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Social Security has proved to be one of the most successful programmes in the USA. Despite this success, the design of the programme reflects yesterday's needs and it cannot survive into the 21st century without significant reforms...read more

Product Description: Social Security and Medicare are of compelling concern to virtually all Americans because they impact lives so enduringly and directly through the protection they afford and the costs they entail. It is, indeed, the extraordinary social welfare commitment these programs represent and their concomitant expense that provoke such determined support and such fiscal concern...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explains the purposes and coverage of Social security and Medicare, eligibility requirements, applying for benefits, recent changes, and the future of these programs

Product Description: Book by Kingson, Eric R., Hirshorn, Barbara A., Cornman, John M.