Contemporary Challenges to Age-Based Policy = 1
Robert B. Hudson
I. Perspectives on Age-Based Policy
A Normative Defense of Universal Age-Based Public Policy = 23
Martha B. Holstein
What Justice Requires: A Normative Foundation for U.S. Pension Reform = 42
John Myles
Decreasing Welfare, Increasing Old Age Inequality: Whose Responsibility Is It? = 65
Madonna Harrington Meyer
Social Security and the Paradoxes of Welfare State Conservatism = 90
Steven M. Teles
II. Age-Based Policy and Population Dynamics
When Old Age Begins: Implications for Health, Work, and Retirement = 109
Angela M. O'Rand
Minority Workers and Pathways to Retirement = 129
Chenoa A. Flippen
The Oldest Old and a Long-Lived Society: Challenges for Public Policy = 157
Judith G. Gonyea
III. Age-Based Public Policies
Reframing Social Security: Cures Worse than the Disease = 183
Pamela Herd
Eric R. Kingson
Sustaining Medicare as an Age-Related Program = 205
Marilyn Moon
The Politics of Aging within Medicaid = 219
Colleen M. Grogan
The Changing Face of Senior Housing = 244
Jon Pynoos
Christy M. Nishita
IV. Old Age Politics and Policy
The Contemporary Politics of Old Age Policies = 265
Robert H. Binstock
Using Local Tax Levies to Fund Programs for Older People: Good Politics and Good Policy? = 294
Robert Applebaum
Sarah Poff Roman
Marc Molea
Alan Burnett
Index 305
Robert B. Hudson
I. Perspectives on Age-Based Policy
A Normative Defense of Universal Age-Based Public Policy = 23
Martha B. Holstein
What Justice Requires: A Normative Foundation for U.S. Pension Reform = 42
John Myles
Decreasing Welfare, Increasing Old Age Inequality: Whose Responsibility Is It? = 65
Madonna Harrington Meyer
Social Security and the Paradoxes of Welfare State Conservatism = 90
Steven M. Teles
II. Age-Based Policy and Population Dynamics
When Old Age Begins: Implications for Health, Work, and Retirement = 109
Angela M. O'Rand
Minority Workers and Pathways to Retirement = 129
Chenoa A. Flippen
The Oldest Old and a Long-Lived Society: Challenges for Public Policy = 157
Judith G. Gonyea
III. Age-Based Public Policies
Reframing Social Security: Cures Worse than the Disease = 183
Pamela Herd
Eric R. Kingson
Sustaining Medicare as an Age-Related Program = 205
Marilyn Moon
The Politics of Aging within Medicaid = 219
Colleen M. Grogan
The Changing Face of Senior Housing = 244
Jon Pynoos
Christy M. Nishita
IV. Old Age Politics and Policy
The Contemporary Politics of Old Age Policies = 265
Robert H. Binstock
Using Local Tax Levies to Fund Programs for Older People: Good Politics and Good Policy? = 294
Robert Applebaum
Sarah Poff Roman
Marc Molea
Alan Burnett
Index 305