Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- In Memoriam: Mr. Social Security: The Extraordinary Contributions of Robert M. Ball -- Introduction: We're All in This Together -- PART I: SOCIAL INSURANCE: HISTORY, POLITICS, AND PROSPECTS -- Introduction -- 1 The Nine Guiding Principles of Social Security -- 2 Social Insurance and the Right to Assistance -- 3 Procession of the Generations: Are We Still Traveling Together? -- 4 The Little-Known Origins of the Social Security Act: How and Why Corporate Moderates Created Old-Age Insurance -- 5 The Medicare Modernization Act: Evolution or Revolution in Social Insurance? -- 6 The Future of Social Insurance: Values and Generational Interdependence -- PART II: WHAT'S AT STAKE -- Introduction -- 7 One Nation, Interdependent: Exploring the Boundaries of Citizenship in the History of Social Security and Medicare -- 8 Why All Women (and Most Men) Should Support Universal Rather than Privatized Social Security -- 9 Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise? Challenges to Income Security for Elders of Color -- 10 Quality of Life for Communities of Color -- PART III: THE ONGOING DEBATES OVER SOCIAL INSURANCE PROGRAMS -- Introduction -- 11 Can Threats to Social Insurance in the United States Be Repelled? -- 12 Social Security Privatization: The Institutionalization of an Ideological Movement -- 13 A Normative Approach to Social Security: What Dignity Requires -- 14 Public Opinion and Social Insurance: The American Experience -- 15 Restoring Confidence in Social Security: Our Obligation to Future Generations -- PART IV: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL INSURANCE REFORM -- Introduction -- 16 Social Insurance in Europe -- 17 Pensions in Crisis: Aging and Inequality in a Global Age -- 18 Federalism, State Taxation of OASDI Benefits, and the Economic Well-Being of Older Americans -- 19 Social Justice and Tax Expenditures.

PART V: TEACHING SOCIAL INSURANCE: CRITICAL PEDAGOGY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE -- Introduction -- 20 Make History Ground-Breaking by Teaching Essential History: Putting Social Security in U.S. History Syllabi -- 21 Teaching Collaborative Learning and Continuing Education Strategies about Social Security and Medicare -- 22 Beyond Lectures and Tests: Facilitating Applied and Interactive Social Insurance Learning Experiences in Gerontology Courses -- Epilogue: From the Audacity of Hope to the Audacity of Action -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.