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Dr. Henry Aaron, assistant secretary of health, education, and welfare for planning and evaluation in the Carter administration, and Dr. Rudolph Penner, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, discuss ways to avoid bankruptcy of the Social Security program. Aaron explains the Carter administration's solution to the problem, and then alternate solutions--increasing payroll taxes, raising the retirement age, changing the husband/wife payment system--are proposed and debated.

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Dr. Phillip D. Cagan, Dr. William Fellner, Dr. Rudolph Penner, and Dr. Herbert Stein discuss policies for economic recovery and growth. Regarding what should and should not be done to improve the economic situation in 1982, they consider the role of the Federal Reserve, the importance of keeping inflation down, why proposals in Congress will not successfully deal with unemployment, and raising taxes.