One of the noted proposals to "fix" Social Security is would which Provide more benefits to workers 50 - 55; balance the pool of eligible pension recipients Privatization; transfer the management of Social Security to the private sector Leave the program unchanged; resolve costs due to economic fluctuations over three decades Cut payroll taxes to zero; unleash the US economy to make the program solvent One of the noted proposals to "fox" Social Security is would which O Provide more benefits to workers 50:55: balance the pool of eligible pension recipients O Privatization: transfer the management of Social Security to the private sector O Leave the program unchanged, resolve custs due in economic fluctuations over three decades O Cut payroll taxes to zero; unleash the US economy to make the program solvent

RM2.   Why is it more efficient for the government to offer employment insurnace than for private insurance companies?   Why is Canada accused of treating EI as an income transfer program instead of an insurnace program?   What are the various methods commonly used to measure poverty? Hoe do they differ? Which method does Canada use?

a. Explain how a universal healthcare system would likely cause a greater amount of efficient turnover. b. Defined-benefit retirement plans promise a fixed amount of retirement income to workers, but in order to receive benefits workers must be vested in the plan that usually requires working at the firm for 10 or 15 years. In contrast, a definedcontribution retirement plan specifies a fixed amount of money the firm contributes each pay period to a worker’s retirement fund, which the worker then largely controls and can access even if she changes jobs. Do defined-benefit or defined-contribution retirement plans allow for more efficient turnover? How is the social security system in the United States like a defined-benefit plan? How is it like a defined-contribution plan? c. When federal workers in Washington, D.C., move jobs from one federal agency to another, the worker keeps her same health insurance and retirement benefits. In order to quantify the degree to which ease of transfer…

Why do most researchers consider the U.S. social security system a social insurance program rather than a pension system and what are the common criticisms of the current definition of poverty-level income?