The Promise of Certainty
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10534633 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Ann Kutza (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 132-144 |
| Publication date | 1986-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Service Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7961 • E-ISSN: 1537-5404 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/644352 |
| OpenAlex | W2035688484 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
Since the passage of the Social Security Act, the American public has regarded the receipt of Social Security benefits as a certainty. Yet the continued operation of the system relies on an uncertain world--economically, socially, and politically. Both program revenues and disbursements are sensitive to changes in productivity, economic growth, inflation, and unemployment. In addition, changes in the way that people live and work may result in a divergence between what people need from the program and what the program is prepared to provide. Finally, the politics that surround the Social Security system encourage an atmosphere in which program adjustments to changing economic and social conditions become very difficult
Business · Certainty · Economic growth · Economic policy · Economics · Inflation (cosmology · Labour economics · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Productivity · Public economics · Receipt · Revenue · Social security · Unemployment · Work (physics · Finance · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1990 - 1990 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |