New Details of President Bush's Social Security Plan
Mark Stern
Professor of Social Welfare and History
University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work
President Bush's plan for revamping social security has gone from "bad to worse," Stern says.
"Social Security has been a spectacularly successful program because it got the balance right between Americans' belief, rooted in market principles, that benefits should be earned and that pooling risk is a prudent way of dealing with life's uncertainties.
"Bush's Plan B successfully undermines both of these principles. By doing so, it seeks to substitute an unworkable and unproven system for one that has demonstrated its effectiveness for the past 70 years," he says.
Griffin Pitt, right, works with two other student researchers to test the conductivity, total dissolved solids, salinity, and temperature of water below a sand dam in Kenya.
Griffin Pitt’s upbringing made her passionate about water access and pollution, and Penn has given her the opportunity to explore these issues back home in North Carolina and abroad.
Helping robots work together to explore the Moon and Mars
Penn Engineers, NASA, and five other universities tested robotic systems designed to help unmanned explorers cooperate in the dunes of White Sands, New Mexico, paving the way for Moon and Mars exploration.
From framework to actions: Provost John L. Jackson Jr. talks Penn Forward
In a Q&A, Provost John L. Jackson Jr. explains the relationship between the strategic framework In Principle and Practice and Penn Forward—a new University-wide process and action plan that will advance Penn forward for the next decade and beyond.
