Dr. James Ziliak, CHET Core Faculty Member, Co-Edits Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

James P. Ziliak, PhD, is the Gatton Endowed Chair in Microeconomics, Director of Center for Poverty Research and Kentucky Federal Statistical Research Data Center, and a Core Faculty member of the Center for Health Equity Transformation. Dr. Ziliak along with Dr. Robert Moffitt have co-edited a special issue on Entitlement Reform in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. The volume contains eleven articles on the major social insurance and means-tested transfer programs in the U.S., along with two reflections and an Introduction to the volume. The focus of each article is to briefly describe the program, including trends in participation and spending, a brief review of the research evidence, and then a careful assessment of reform possibilities for the program, both incremental and fundamental. The articles are intended for a broad audience of researchers, students, policymakers, and advocates. For the next 90 days the articles are open access at https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/anna/686/1 The table of contents are listed below. Special Editors: Robert A. Moffitt and James P. Ziliak Introduction "Entitlements: Options for Reforming the Social Safety Net in the United States" Robert A. Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University and James P. Ziliak, University of Kentucky Reforming Social Insurance "Fixing Social Security: Major Reform or Minor Repairs?" Gary Burtless, Brookings Institution "Economic Principles for Medicare Reform" Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and Craig Garthwaite, Northwestern University "Identifying Work Capacity and Promoting Work: A Strategy for Modernizing the SSDI Program" Nicole Maestas, Harvard University "Unemployment Insurance Reform" Till von Wachter, University of California, Los Angeles Reforming Means-Tested Transfers "Medicaid: What Does it Do and Can We Do it Better?" Janet Currie, Princeton University and Valentina Duque, University of Sydney "The Earned Income Tax Credit" Hilary Hoynes, University of California, Berkeley "Exploring Options to Improve the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program" Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Northwestern University "When One Size Does Not Fit All: Modernizing the Supplemental Security Income Program" Mary C. Daly, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Mark Duggan, Stanford University "Reforming Housing Assistance" Rob Collinson, University of Notre Dame, Ingrid Gould Ellen, New York University, and Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago "The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program: Time for Improvements" Ron Haskins, Brookings Institution and Matt Weidinger, American Enterprise Institute "Child Care and Child Care Policy: Existing Policies, Their Effects, and Reforms" V. Joseph Hotz, Duke University and Matthew Wiswall, University of Wisconsin Reflections "Work, Family, and Community: A Framework for Fighting Poverty" Robert Doar and Angela Rachidi, American Enterprise Institute "The Economic Context for Reforming the Safety Net" Karen Dynan, Harvard University