Product Description: Listen to any news broadcast today and the message comes through loud and clear: Islam is a religion of violence and behind every Muslim there lurks a potential terrorist. Islam is a threat to values of the Christian West. They are like oil and water...read more

Presents a detailed overview of the Bush administration's proposed changes to Social Security, discussing how such changes would jeopardize the solvency of the current system and put retirees at risk.

Product Description: As baby boomers retire over the next three decades, some claim they will break the bank of the Social Security system. These fears of insolvency have generated a wide range of reform proposals, some of which would transform the current program drastically...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Prize-winning author Martha Derthick draws on the recent experience of the Social Security Administration to examine the quality of policymaker's guidance and the feasibility of their policies. Derthick concludes that many structural features of American government hinder good administration, that policymakers lack concern for administration, and that they often miscalculate the administrative consequences of their policy choices...read more

Product Description: Prize-winning author Martha Derthick draws on the recent experience of the Social Security Administration to examine the quality of policymaker's guidance and the feasibility of their policies.Derthick concludes that many structural features of American government hinder good administration, that policymakers lack concern for administration, and that they often miscalculate the administrative consequences of their policy choices...read more

Product Description: Using microsimulation, the authors examine ways in which the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program could be reformed to greatly reduce poverty among the elderly and the disabled. The authors also describe several options for financing these program improvements and conclude that the cost would have a modest and equitable impact on the nonpoor elderly and nonelderly population...read more