Providing Social Security Benefits in the Future: A Review of theSocial Security System and Plans to Reform It

Most summaries and studies examine Social Security reform from theviewpoint of federal budget impact, tax rates, and thesurvivability of the system, but few consider the overall impact ofreform on the workers it was designed to benefit. Social Securityshould not be reformed or "saved" for its own sake, but only if itmore effectively provides the benefits workers need at a price theycan afford.

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