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• Nominated for James Willard Hurst Prize 2017

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An innovative and well-thought-out approach to the challenge of creating an affordable and sensible Social Security system for the foreseeable future.--Daniel Halperin, Harvard Law School What makes [Alstott's] book so important is that it addresses the reality that Americans in the aggregate are living longer, healthier lives than in the past...Alstott's proposal is a clever way of redirecting Social Security benefits toward the disadvantaged without explicitly using means-testing to accomplish that goal...Alstott's rich sets of proposals are part of an important, emerging conversation on the need to adjust America's social safety net for the modern labor market, the modern family, and a modern aging population.--Chris Farrell Next Avenue (10/18/2016) This book reinforces Alstott's stellar reputation in the legal academy and makes a significant contribution to one of the most important public policy debates of our era. Essential reading.--Rob Reich, Stanford University

An innovative and well-thought-out approach to the challenge of creating an affordable and sensible Social Security system for the foreseeable future.--Daniel Halperin, Harvard Law School

What makes [Alstott s] book so important is that it addresses the reality that Americans in the aggregate are living longer, healthier lives than in the past Alstott s proposal is a clever way of redirecting Social Security benefits toward the disadvantaged without explicitly using means-testing to accomplish that goal Alstott s rich sets of proposals are part of an important, emerging conversation on the need to adjust America s social safety net for the modern labor market, the modern family, and a modern aging population.--Chris Farrell Next Avenue (10/18/2016)

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Anne L. Alstott is the Jacquin D. Bierman Professor at Yale Law School and author of A New Deal for Old Age, among other books. She has won her school’s top teaching award five times in her twenty-six-year career. She has written or cowritten pieces for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, and Slate, and has appeared on the public radio programs Marketplace and On Point.

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