Illustrates and describes the religion, language, art, historic sites, scenery, people, and daily life of modern China

China Observed

Meyer, Charles

Oxford University Press

The compulsory nature of social security makes it possible for income to be distributed within and across beneficiary cohorts. Focusing on the Federal Social Security system, encompassing OASDI and Medicare, this volume examines the equity and adequacy criteria that serve as standards for determining how payroll tax revenues are to be distributed. Social Security distributes cash benefits to retired and disabled workers in accordance with past taxable earnings, and the book describes and evaluates the procedures for determining each worker's earnings-related benefit base. The benefit base serves as a standard of individual equity. Primary worker payments are determined by applying a cohort-specific benefit formula to the benefit base of each worker. The benefit formula includes a rate structure with a progressive tilt, resulting in a higher benefit-to-earnings ratio for workers with lower prior earnings. Other features of the benefit structure adjust benefits to allow for age at entitlement and presence of eligible dependents or survivors. This book examines all of these features from an individual equity perspective.The authors also use equity considerations to provide a framework for examining the disability determination process and the current procedure for financing the Hospital Insurance and Supplementary Medical Insurance components of Medicare. In conclusion, the authors contrast the existing system with alternatives that would conform more closely with an actuarial standard. They also conclude with a discussion of the effects of the impending OASI trust fund surplus on successive generations of beneficiaries.

Social Security and Individual Equity: Evolving Standards of Equity and Adequacy (Studies in Social Welfare Policies and Programs)

Politics & Social Sciences

Wolff, Nancy

Social Sciences

Praeger

Accounting and Finance for Lawyers in a Nutshell (Nutshells)

Business

West Academic Publishing

Taking over an Episcopalian church in Austin, ex-prison chaplain Reverend Lucas Holt personally oversees the rehabilitated ex-cons of his new parish, until a serial killer begins plaguing the community. Original.

The Saints of God Murders

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Berkley_Pub Group

Distressed by the increasing number of elderly parishioners who have died recently, Reverend Holt is disappointed that each was placed in a nursing home by uncaring offspring, who suddenly begin to die off themselves. Original.

Blessed Are the Merciless

BERKLEY

China observed

London : Kaye & Ward 1981

Travel

Asia

Oxford Univ. Pr.

Surviving Death Prac G

Parenting & Relationships

Twenty-Third Publications

<p>Meyer offers level-headed advice for coping with death and its aftermath. Surviving Death includes chapters on "Pulling the Plug," "Hastening the Inevitable," and the issue of an afterlife. A useful resource for pastoral staff, counselors, and the grieving.</p>

Surviving Death: A Practical Guide to Caring for the Dying & Bereaved

Religion & Spirituality

Twenty Third Pubns

A Good Death: Challenges Choices and Care Options

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