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Social Security, or Old Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI), is one of the most important and long-lived social policies in the United States. Beechey offers a succinct background to Social Security policy to help readers understand the technical aspects of the policy in order to understand the fiscal solvency questions which bring Social Security to the policy agenda. By understanding how the policy works today, including differential outcomes by gender, race, class, and age, the reader can better understand what is at stake in Social Security policy debates.
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Beechey, S.N. (2016). Social Security Policy Today. In: Social Security and the Politics of Deservingness. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-91891-1_2
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