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When I'm Sixty-Four : The Plot against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them /

A crisis is looming for baby boomers and anyone else who hopes to retire in the coming years. In When I'm Sixty-Four, Teresa Ghilarducci, the nation's leading authority on the economics of retirement, explains how to confront this crisis head-on, revealing the causes behind the increasingl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ghilarducci, Teresa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The attack on retirement.
  • Hope for retirement's future
  • The collapse of retirement income
  • When bad things happen to good pensions
  • promises get broken
  • Do-it-yourself pensions
  • The future of Social Security
  • pt. 2. What is good about America's retirement income security system.
  • The short history of old age leisure in America
  • The distribution of retirement time : who really gets to retire?
  • Working : the new retirement's effect on the economy
  • pt. 3. The rescue plan for retirement.
  • The American labor movement : advocating retirement and obtaining pensions
  • Rescue plan for American workers' retirement : averting the end of retirement.