Entitlement Issues in the Domestic Budget: The Long-term Agenda

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...