Product Description: In the US, retirement savings are low while risk exposure is high, thus dooming many retirees to a low standard of living. This book offers straightforward solutions to build real retirement security for American families.

Product Description: The manner in which financial market developments permeate labor and industrial relations may explain many of the pressing phenomena of our times―economic instability, jobless recoveries, and high income and wealth inequality. Financial market trends influence hiring and compensation decisions, change managerial outlooks, steer investments and technology, and strain collective bargaining agreements...read more

Product Description: Few events have posed as many challenges for retirement and retirement policy as the crisis of the late 2000s. At the end of the last decade, the United States experienced the Great Recession―a combination of unprecedented wealth losses and historically high unemployment increases that marked the longest economic recession since the Great Depression...read more

Product Description: This volume outlines a fresh view on pension plans from the perspective of both the employer and employee, describing the possibilities in American labor relations and in Congress to meet employers' needs to compete and to fulfill the enduring desire of workers to plan for a financially secure period of leisure at the end of their working lives...read more

Product Description: At a time when adequate, affordable, health insurance for retirees is being threatened by rising costs, Health Insurance Coverage in Retirement: The Erosion of Retiree Income Security examines new data on medical coverage in retirement and raises serious concerns about the future retirement security of the elderly and near-elderly...read more