Social insecurity: Social Security is much more than the retirement program people think it is. A look at its creation, the debate over privatization--and why it matters to you.
New York Times Upfront › Vol. 137 Nbr. 12, March 2005
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Social insecurity: Social Security is much more than the retirement program people think it is. A look at its creation, the debate over privatization--and why it matters to you.
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To help students understand the current debate over Social Security: whether to keep the 70-year-old government-guaranteed retirement and social-insurance system basically as it is, or to allow workers to invest part of their Social Security taxes in private, or personal, accounts. "RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM": Stanford University historian David M. Kennedy says it was only the severe economic pain of the Depression that pushed Americans to break loose, at least to some extent, from their traditional belief in "rugged individualism." Ask your students to define "rugged individualism." President Bush says one of his g...See the full content of this document
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