The authors assess the importance of knowing as much as possible about how the current Social Security system redistributes money in practice and to whom.

This bookexamines the effects on achievement of the largest federal program of financial aid to schools, Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

Social Security may be more regressive than progressive, redistributing income from the poor to the rich.

Anew study, Income Redistribution from Social Security (AEI Press, February 2005), argues that Social Security may not redistribute money from the rich to the poor.

The Title I program has had no systematic, positive effect on student achievement, and it does not contribute significantly to closing the achievement gap for poor and minority students.

Under Title I--the major provision of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act--the federal government has provided more than $200 billion to schools with children from low-income familes. The goal of this program, reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act, is to raise the achievement of children...

It has become a Washington commonplace that the federal government's fiscal problems increasingly are becoming a strategic problem for the United States.

The "Stop Over-Spending Act" is exactly the type of legislation that might help curb budget growth.