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A Targeted Minimum Benefit Plan: A New Proposal to Reduce Poverty Among Older Social Security Recipients A Targeted Minimum Benefit Plan
Pamela Herd, Melissa Favreault, Madonna Harrington Meyer, Timothy M. Smeeding
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2018, 4 (2) 74-90; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.04
Pamela Herd
aProfessor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Melissa Favreault
bSenior fellow in the Income and Benefits Policy Center at the Urban Institute
Madonna Harrington Meyer
cProfessor of sociology and senior research associate at the Center for Policy Research at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University
Timothy M. Smeeding
cProfessor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

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A Targeted Minimum Benefit Plan: A New Proposal to Reduce Poverty Among Older Social Security Recipients A Targeted Minimum Benefit Plan
Pamela Herd, Melissa Favreault, Madonna Harrington Meyer, Timothy M. Smeeding
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Feb 2018, 4 (2) 74-90; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.04
A Targeted Minimum Benefit Plan: A New Proposal to Reduce Poverty Among Older Social Security Recipients A Targeted Minimum Benefit Plan
Pamela Herd, Melissa Favreault, Madonna Harrington Meyer, Timothy M. Smeeding
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Feb 2018, 4 (2) 74-90; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.04
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- THE RISK FOR POVERTY AND ECONOMIC SECURITY AMONG THE AGED
- CURRENT OLD AGE SOCIAL INSURANCE PROGRAM ANTI-POVERTY ISSUES
- ADDRESSING THE POLICY PROBLEM
- WHY CURRENT MINIMUM BENEFITS ARE FAILING OLDER AMERICANS
- A NEW OPTION FOR THE UNITED STATES: A MINIMUM BENEFIT PLAN
- SIMULATING THE BENEFIT COSTS AND DISTRIBUTION OF WHO BENEFITS
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