TitleShared responsibility, shared risk : government, markets and social policy in the twenty-first century / edited by Jacob S. Hacker and Ann O'Leary
Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, c2012
Descript xvi, 276 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

CONTENT

Inspirations and challenges for shared responsibility, shared risk : Sharing risk and responsibility in a new economic era ; A brief history of risk management policy ; The American challenge in cross-national perspective ; "The arms of democracy": economic security in the Nation's Broader National Security Agenda -- Improving economic security for workers : The role of government in ensuring employment security and job security ; Income security when temporarily away from work -- Improving economic security for families : Public policy options to build wealth for America's middel class ; Risk allocation in home ownership: revisiting the role of mortgage contract terms ; Risk sharing when work and family clash: the need for government and employer innovation -- Increasing health and retirement security : Health care reform 2.0: fulfilling the promise of the affordable care act ; Bigger and better: redesigning our retrirement system in the wake of the fianacial collapse ; Government's role in aging and long-term care -- Seeing, bearing, and sharing risk: social policy challenges for our time


SUBJECT

  1. Economic security -- United States
  2. Public welfare -- United States
  3. United States -- Social policy -- 1993-
  4. United States -- Economic policy -- 2009-

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