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Americans' attitudes toward welfare state spending for old-age programs
— an analysis of period and cohort differences | | Author(s) | Tracy L Dietz, Melissa Castora |
| Journal title | Care Management Journals, vol 6, no 4, Winter 2005 |
| Pages | pp 203-211 |
| Source | http://www.springerpub.com |
| Keywords | Social welfare ; Public expenditure ; Attitude ; Cross sectional surveys ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Using cross-sectional data from the US General Social Survey for 1984-2004 and the Terres-Gil classification system, this study examines period and cohort differences in attitudes toward welfare state spending for old age programmes. The study also considers whether or not it is the government's responsibility to provide a decent standard of living for older people, whether or not respondents felt that the current level of spending for Social Security was adequate, and whether or not respondents were willing to make sacrifices such as paying higher taxes to pay for greater retirement benefits. The findings suggest that the generational conflict that many suggested might arise has not come to fruition. Indeed, the youngest cohorts in these analyses were the most likely to support higher taxes to pay for better retirement benefits. Perhaps more interesting were the findings that there were no significant period effects for whether or not the government was responsible for providing a decent standard of living, but there were such effects when examining whether or not Social Security funding levels were adequate. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070413534 A |
| Classmark | TY: WN8: DP: 3KB: 3J: 7T |
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