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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: The United States faces a serious retirement challenge. Many of today's workers will lack the resources to retire at traditional ages and maintain their standard of living in retirement. Solving the problem is a major challenge in today's environment in which risk and responsibility have shifted from government and employers to individuals...read more

The New Deal placed security at the center of American political and economic life by establishing an explicit partnership between the state, economy, and citizens. In America, unlike anywhere else in the world, most people depend overwhelmingly on private health insurance and employee benefits. The astounding rise of this phenomenon from before World War II, however, has been largely overlooked. In this powerful history of the American reliance on employment-based benefits, Jennifer Klein examines the interwoven politics of social provision and labor relations from the 1910s to the 1960s. Through a narrative that connects the commercial life insurance industry, the politics of Social Security, organized labor's quest for economic security, and the evolution of modern health insurance, she shows how the firm-centered welfare system emerged. Moreover, the imperatives of industrial relations, Klein argues, shaped public and private social security. Looking closely at unions and communities, Klein uncovers the wide range of alternative, community-based health plans that had begun to germinate in the 1930s and 1940s but that eventually succumbed to commercial health insurance and pensions. She also illuminates the contests to define "security"--job security, health security, and old age security--following World War II. For All These Rights traces the fate of the New Deal emphasis on social entitlement as the private sector competed with and emulated Roosevelt's Social Security program. Through the story of struggles over health security and old age security, social rights and the welfare state, it traces the fate of New Deal liberalism--as a set of ideas about the state, security, and labor rights--in the 1950s, the 1960s, and beyond.

Product Description: Demographic changes, combined with emerging structural shifts in the economy, have prompted concern about the capacity of the United States to provide retirement income and medical care to the growing number of elderly individuals...read more

Product Description: Why are pension funds so large and benefits so small? This examination of the 120-year-old American system of privatized social insurance - often called, at 1.7 trillion dollars, the biggest lump of money in the world - reveals that the system fails to provide adequate retirement income security, its most prominent goal, and, in fact, its greatest influence is in supplying funds to U...read more

Product Description: Many citizens of the United States are experiencing unprecedented levels of personal wealth, and you can be a part of it! Great wealth has been created in the past forty years by the senior members of the population, and an enormous intergenerational transfer of wealth is taking place...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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A valuable financial resource provides an in-depth analysis of the magnitude of the pension crisis, gives a detailed explanation of the pension system, informs readers about the best plans for their lifestyles, and guides them to a secure future. Reprint. LJ.

Product Description: Book by Turner, John A., Doescher, Tabitha A., Fernandez, Phyllis A.

Product Description: Demographic realities will soon force developed countries to find ways to pay for longer retirements for more people. In Pension Strategies in Europe and the United States, leading economists analyze topical issues in pension policy, with a focus on raising the retirement age, increasing retirement savings, and the political sustainability of reforms that will accomplish these goals...read more

Product Description: Charles Blahous, one of the nation's foremost retirement security experts, explains the origins and dangers of current underfunding in our single-employer defined-benefit pension system and outlines the options for solving the problem and preventing the next taxpayer-financed bailout...read more

Provides an overview of the private pension movement, discusses pension growth, economic implications, and general characteristics, and offers advice on setting federal policy concerning pensions

Telling readers what they need to know now to protect their pensions, two pension experts and reform advocates reveal the pitfalls in the system, ask disturbing questions, and offer valuable advice to protect retirement income. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: In recent years a decline in the labor force participation of older workers has combined with rapid current and projected increases in the number of older Americans, producing major policy debates over looming "crises" in social security and, to a lesser extent, in the private pension system...read more

Product Description: Book by Felton, Leo A.

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Argues that the ailing Social Security system can be gradually replaced while fully guaranteeing benefits to all Americans

Are you concerned about your pension? In today's tumultuous business environment, you have every right to be. With revised pension laws and under-the-table pension cuts by companies making waves, you have to be ever vigilant about protecting what you have. Protecting Your Pension For Dummies helps you do just that. This easy-to-follow guide explains all the latest pension laws, what your rights are, and the best ways to keep your money safe. It demystifies the various types of pension plans and outlines just what it takes to qualify for a pension. Once your plan is set up, you'll see how to navigate company bankruptcies, mergers, and pension cutbacks, as well as divorces, loans, and personal bankruptcy-and take action if you've been shortchanged to recoup what is rightfully yours. You get all the expert guidance you need to: Understand the Pension Protection Act of 2006 Evaluate different pension plans Plan for retirement while you're working Ensure that you get your pension Request essential plan documents Understand eligibility, accrual, and vesting Guard your pension from your employer-and from life's ups and downs Understand pension distributions And much more Complete with a glossary of terms and an appendix of charts and forms discussed throughout the book, Protecting Your Pension For Dummies is the fun and easy way(r) to grasp all the important pension rules-and retire with a full nest egg!

Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] Retirement Heist is a scathing and urgent exposé of one of the most critical and least understood crises of our time. '' 'As far as I can determine there is only one solution [to the CEO's demand to save more money]', the human resources representative wrote to her superiors...read more