Economics & Inequality Retirement Security Education Health Care Homeland Security Election Reform Media & Politics International Affairs TCF Project Sites: Donate to TCF Join our Listserv  Taking Note Home About TCF News Room Join our Listserv False Alarm: Why the Greatest Threat to Social Security and Medicare is the Campaign to "Save" Them     Email    Printer-Friendly Joseph White, Johns Hopkins University Press, 10/1/2003 Order Online Table of Contents (pdf) In False Alarm: Why the Greatest Threat to Social Security and Medicare Is the Campaign to “Save” Them, Joseph White, Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy at Case Western Reserve University, argues that the financial challenges facing both programs are long-term rather than imminent and that they can and should be addressed through incremental adjustments rather than the more radical approaches that have become the preoccupation in Washington. Because the programs together have succeeded in dramatically reducing poverty among the elderly, transforming them into market-oriented arrangements that reduce guaranteed protections risks a return to an era when retired Americans had insufficient resources to live comfortably. Edition: Paper    ISBN: 0801864491    Pages: 329    Price: $22.95 Copyright 2010 The Century Foundation. Privacy Policy NY Office: 41 East 70th Street—New York, New York—10021—Phone:212-535-4441—212-879-9197 DC Office: 1333 H Street, NW—10th Floor— Washington, D.C. 20005— Phone: 202-387-0400— Fax: 202-483-9430