How social security disability law is out of touch with the contemporary American labor market Passing down nearly a million decisions each year, more judges ha

Compact, timely, well-researched, and balanced, this institutional history of Social Security's seventy years shows how the past still influences ongoing reform

Takes the reader behind the Social Security Act to show the drama that led to the bill being passed and the effect it had in the development of our country.

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