Download or read book Entitlement Issues in the Domestic Budget written by John C. Weicher and published by A E I Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume analyze the entitlement programs responsible for more than two-thirds of all federal outlays, exclusive of interest on debt. Rather than dealing with the level of current outlays in the current budget as most other discussions do, the authors focus on fundamental inequities and problems likely to emerge over the long term. The papers in this volume address the following topics: Michael D. Levy discusses social security, stressing the problems created by the present federal income tax treatment of benefits. Jack Meyer examines Medicare and Medicaid, noting that they are expensive programs that yet fail to provide adequate coverage in important respects. Annelise Anderson reviews federal pay and civil service retirement, concluding that federal workers are both overpaid and underpaid and that the overpayment of many workers is combined with an extremely generous retirement system. Kenneth Clarkson describes low-income benefit programs, emphasizing the problem of multiple benefits for individual households. The volume also includes an edited discussion among the authors and other participants at the conference.
Download or read book Overview of the Administration s Entitlement Policies written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Entitlements, Uncontrollables, and Indexing and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Structural Problems in the Domestic Budget written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Non means tested Entitlements written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Entitlements, Uncontrollables, and Indexing and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Options for Changing Indexation of Entitlement Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Entitlements, Uncontrollables, and Indexing and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Budgeting Entitlements written by Ronald F. King and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As budgetary concerns have come to dominate Congressional action, the design and implementation of welfare programs have come under greater scrutiny. This book focuses on the food stamp program to examine how the growing integration of welfare and budgeting has affected both politics and people. Applying insightful analysis to this important policy topic, Ronald F. King looks at the effects on welfare transfers of the kinds of budgetary rules adopted by Congress: discretion, entitlement, and expenditure caps. King uses models based on these forms to interpret the events in the history of the food stamp program up to the welfare reform of 1996, and he shows how these different budget rules have affected political strategies among key actors and policy outcomes. King analyzes tensions in the program between budgetary concerns and entitlement, revealing that budget mechanisms which seek to cap the growth of entitlement spending have perverse but predictable effects. He also explores the broader conflict between procedural and substantive justice, which pits inclusive democratic decision-making against special protections for the needy and vulnerable in society. The food stamp program offers a valuable opportunity for studying the influence of shifting institutional factors. In an era when budgetary anxieties coexist with continuing poverty, King's book sheds new light on the increasing fiscalization of welfare in America.
Download or read book Entitlement Programs in the Human Resources Area written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Human Resources and Block Grants and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Borrowed Time written by Peter G. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entitlements represent one of the largest and fastest-growing portions of the federal budget. They are regarded as sacrosanct by lawmakers, yet many people see them as one of the greatest threats to the American Dream. This volume argues that by sacrifi cing the future in order to pay ever-larger federal benefits through programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and federal pensions,entitlement spending has become a crushing burden to American workers.
Download or read book American Issues written by Glenn Mollette and published by Liberty Torch Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divisive issues affect us and cause much introspection: Taxes and government spending increase, but the budget is not balanced. Entitlement programs and immigration-can they be reformed? Can we create jobs and positively impact the economy by utilizing domestic energy resources? Can the Health Care debacle be turned around? What are the REAL issues surrounding the Second Amendment? Have The Patriot Act and the TSA gone too far? Civil union vs. marriage - who is right? How do we work together to curtail the devastation of these unresolved issues? Dr. Glenn Mollette uses an informed and enlightened approach to tackle these issues. His experience as a husband, father, pastor, entrepreneur, seminary president and author of 10 books, provides understandable, common sense solutions. In this book, Dr. Mollette stimulates much soul-searching concerning these issues and encourages us to stand together to make a difference.
Download or read book A Nation of Takers written by Nicholas Eberstadt and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic, one of our country’s foremost demographers, Nicholas Eberstadt, details the exponential growth in entitlement spending over the past fifty years. As he notes, in 1960, entitlement payments accounted for well under a third of the federal government’s total outlays. Today, entitlement spending accounts for a full two-thirds of the federal budget. Drawing on an impressive array of data and employing a range of easy-to-read, four-color charts, Eberstadt shows the unchecked spiral of spending on a range of entitlements, everything from Medicare to disability payments. But Eberstadt does not just chart the astonishing growth of entitlement spending, he also details the enormous economic and cultural costs of this epidemic. He powerfully argues that while this spending certainly drains our federal coffers, it also has a very real, long-lasting, negative impact on the character of our citizens. Also included in the book is a response from one of our leading political theorists, William Galston. In his incisive response, he questions Eberstadt’s conclusions about the corrosive effect of entitlements on character and offers his own analysis of the impact of American entitlement growth.
Download or read book The Deficit Myth written by Stephanie Kelton and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory -- the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades -- delivers a radically different, bold, new understanding for how to build a just and prosperous society. Stephanie Kelton's brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory (MMT) dramatically changes our understanding of how we can best deal with crucial issues ranging from poverty and inequality to creating jobs, expanding health care coverage, climate change, and building resilient infrastructure. Any ambitious proposal, however, inevitably runs into the buzz saw of how to find the money to pay for it, rooted in myths about deficits that are hobbling us as a country. Kelton busts through the myths that prevent us from taking action: that the federal government should budget like a household, that deficits will harm the next generation, crowd out private investment, and undermine long-term growth, and that entitlements are propelling us toward a grave fiscal crisis. MMT, as Kelton shows, shifts the terrain from narrow budgetary questions to one of broader economic and social benefits. With its important new ways of understanding money, taxes, and the critical role of deficit spending, MMT redefines how to responsibly use our resources so that we can maximize our potential as a society. MMT gives us the power to imagine a new politics and a new economy and move from a narrative of scarcity to one of opportunity.
Download or read book A Glossary of Terms Used in the Federal Budget Process written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A basic reference document for persons interested in the federal budget-making process. Emphasizes budget terms in addition to relevant economic and accounting terms to help the user appreciate the dynamics of the budget process. Also distinguishes between any differences in budgetary and non-budgetary meanings of terms. Over 300 terms defined. Index. Appendices: overview of the federal budget process, budget functional classification, and more.
Download or read book The Entitlement Trap written by Richard Eyre and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dump the allowance-and use a new "Family Economy" to raise responsible children in an age of instant gratification. Number-one New York Times bestselling authors Richard and Linda Eyre, have spent the last twenty-five years helping parents nurture strong, healthy families. Now they've synthesized their vast experience in an essential blueprint to instilling children with a sense of ownership, responsibility, and self-sufficiency. At the heart of their plan is the "Family Economy" complete with a family bank, checkbooks for kids, and a system of initiative-building responsibilities that teaches kids to earn money for the things they want. The motivation carries over to ownership of their own decisions, values, and goals. Anecdotal, time-tested, and gently humorous, The Entitlement Trap challenges some of the sacred cows of parenting and replaces them with values that will save kids (and their parents) from a lifetime of dependence and disabling debt.
Download or read book Options for Changing Indexation of Entitlement Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Entitlements, Uncontrollables, and Indexing and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The WIC Newsletter of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Red Ink written by David Wessel and published by Crown Pub. This book was released on 2012 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a narrative analysis of the federal budget that reveals how funds were actually spent in 2011, evaluating the roles of such contributors as Jacob Lew, Douglas Elmendorf, and Pete Peterson.
Download or read book Entitlement Politics written by David G. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entitlement Politics describes partisan attempts to shrink the size of government by targeting two major federal health care entitlements. Efforts to restructure or eliminate entitlements as such, and to privatize and decentralize programs, along with more traditional attempts to amend and reform Medicare and Medicaid have radically transformed policymaking with respect to these programs. However, they have failed to achieve fundamental or lasting reform.Smith combines historical narrative and case studies with descriptions of the technical aspects and dynamics of policymaking to help the consumer understand how the process has changed, evaluate particular policies and outcomes, and anticipate future possibilities. His account intentionally goes at some length into the substance of the programs, the policies that are involved, and the views of different protagonists about the major issues in the dispute.One unhealthy consequence of politicizing Medicare and Medicaid policy has been to separate public debate from the technical and organizational realities underlying issues of cost containment or program structure. Smith considers this development unfortunate, since it leaves even informed citizens unable to evaluate the claims being made. Ironically, strife over Medicare has complicated the political and policy issues in American life. Only a serious and genuine bipartisan effort bringing forth the best efforts of both political parties--and some of the best industry leaders and policy experts in the field--is likely to achieve genuine reform. The more people and parties know about the history, politics, and policies of these programs, the better our prospects for devising workable, equitable, and lasting solutions. This volume leads the way toward that understanding.
