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100			_aLeone, Richard C.,
245		0	_aAmerican Families at Risk. _cRichard C. Leone and others.
260			_bAmerican Prospect, _c2004.
440			_aSIRS Enduring Issues 2005. _nArticle 31, _pBusiness, _x1522-3191;
500			_aArticles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005.
500			_aOriginally Published: American Families at Risk, May 2004; pp. 39-56.
520			_a"Since the Great Depression, there has been a strong national political consensus supporting policies that help middle-class families cope with the multiple risks in our market economy. These include the risks of illness, destitution in old age, hazards from defective products, polluted natural resources, industrial accidents, corporate frauds, high unemployment, and other assaults largely beyond the individual's control. Such policies are not, by and large, targeted redistributions to the poor but protections for the broad middle class. Many government activities reflect this concern, including social investments financed by a progressive tax code and a wide array of regulatory protections, almost all the result of necessary responses to past abuses by the market....Without these diverse government activities, ordinary middle-class families would be extremely vulnerable. With them, America both preserves the dynamism of a market system and defends innocent individuals from avoidable economic calamities." (AMERICAN PROSPECT) This article argues that the steps the George W. Bush administration has taken towards tax and social security reform hurt the middle class more than they help it.
599			_aRecords created from non-MARC resource.
600			_aBush
650			_aConsumer protection
650			_aEducation
650			_aEmployment (Economic theory) _xStatistics
650			_aFamily policy
650			_aMiddle class
650			_aMiddle class families
650			_aRetirement
650			_aRisk assessment
650			_aSocial history
650			_aSocial security
650			_aTax incidence
650			_aTax reduction
710			_aProQuest Information and Learning Company _tSIRS Enduring Issues 2005, _pBusiness. _x1522-3191;
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