2006 FRQ #2

Post date: Apr 17, 2013 3:52:48 PM

2. In recent decades, entitlement programs have constituted a substantial portion of the Unites States federal budget. Social Security is the largest entitlement program in the United States. From the information in the chart above and your knowledge of the United States government and politics, perform the following tasks. (2006)

(a) Define entitlement program. 

(b) What is the primary source of revenue for the Social Security program?

(c) Identify one threat to the future of the Social Security program should the trends depicted in the chart above contue.

(d) Describe one demographic trend that threatens the future of the Social Security program AND explain how it is responsible for the threat you identified in (c).

(e) Explain how any one of the trends in the chart above would change if the age of eligibility for Social Security were raised.