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Contents Preface List of Contributors 1. Contemporary Challenges to Age-Based Policy, Robert B. Hudson I. Perspectives on Age-Based Policy 2. A Normative Defense of Universal Age-Based Public Policy, Martha B. Holstein 3. What Justice Requires: A Normative Foundation for U.S. Pension Reform, John Myles 4. Social Security and the Paradoxes of Welfare State Conservatism, Steven M. Teles 5. Decreasing Welfare, Increasing Old Age Inequality: Whose Responsibility Is It?, Madonna Harrington Meyer II. Age-Based Policy and Population Dynamics 6. When Old Age Begins: Implications for Health, Work, and Retirement, Angela M. O'Rand 7. Minority Workers and Pathways to Retirement, Chenoa A. Flippen 8. The Oldest Old and a Long-Lived Society: Challenges for Public Policy, Judith G. Gonyea III. Age-Based Public Policies 9. Reframing Social Security: Cures Worse than the Disease, Pamela Herd and Eric R. Kingson 10. Sustaining Medicare as an Age-Related Program, Marilyn Moon 11. The Politics of Aging within Medicaid, Colleen M. Grogan 12. The Changing Face of Senior Housing, Jon Pynoos and Christy M. Nishita IV. Old Age Politics and Policy 13. The Contemporary Politics of Old Age Policies, Robert H. Binstock 14. Using Local Tax Levies to Fund Programs for Older People: Good Politics and Good Policy?, Robert Applebaum, Sarah Poff Roman, Marc Molea, and Alan Burnett Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Older people -- Government policy -- United States.
Older people -- Services for -- United States.
Old age pensions -- United States.
Medicaid.
Social security -- United States.
Old age -- United States.
Public Policy -- Aged -- United States.
Medicaid.
Pensions -- United States.
Social Security -- United States.