Robert M. Ball was commissioner of Social Security from 1962 to 1973, serving under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. He was a member of the 1982-83 National Commission on Social Security Reform (the Greenspan Commission), a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Social Policy, and senior scholar at the Institute for Medicine. He was a member of the 1989-91 and 1994-96 Advisory Councils on Social Security and has served on many other advisory groups. A founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, he chaired its board of directors from 1986 to 1996.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
"Social
Security Plus" (plan for restoring solvency and add-on personal accounts,
December 2004)
Insuring the
Essentials: Bob Ball on Social Security (Century Foundation Press, 2000)
Straight
Talk About Social Security: An Analysis of the Issues in the Current Debate,
coauthor with Thomas N. Bethell (Century Foundation Press, 1998)
ARTICLES:
"Just a Little
Maintenance: We Can Fix Social Security, If We Can Manage the Politics,"
Washington Post, 7/18/04
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