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The labor guide to retirement plans /

"Researching retirement plans should not take the rest of your life, even if deciphering the relevant paperwork seems to have become a full-time job. Deliberately elaborate legalese is obscuring the efforts of financial elites to seize control of workers' collective retirement savings-and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Russell, James W., 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Monthly Review Press, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • THE LABOR GUIDE TO RETIREMENT PLANS
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Retirement System
  • PART I. SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE
  • 2. Social Security: The National Pension Plan
  • 3. What to Expect at Retirement
  • 4. Not a Ponzi Scheme
  • 5. Privatizers and Means Testers
  • 6. Reversing Privatization
  • 7. Medicare
  • PART II. EMPLOYER-SPONSORED PENSION PLANS
  • 8. The Pension Gold Standard
  • 9. Solvency
  • 10. Cutbacks, Freezes, and Bankruptcies
  • 11. The Pension Wars
  • PART III. EMPLOYER-SPONSORED RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLANS
  • 12. Origins of the 401(k)
  • 13. Saving Up to Spend Down
  • 14. The Lone Ranger of the 401(k)s
  • 15. Autopsy of a Retirement Plan
  • 16. Reversing 401(k)ization
  • PART IV. TOWARD BETTER RETIREMENT
  • 17. What Is Needed
  • 18. Retirement Security for All
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Index