Social Security Works!
Why Social Security Isn't Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All
New York : New Press, The, 2015.
Format: Ebook
Description: 1 online resource (321 pages)
A growing chorus of prominent voices in Congress and elsewhere are calling for the expansion of our Social Security systempeople who know that Social Security will not go broke" and does not add a penny to the national debt. Social Security Works! will amplify these voices and offer a powerful antidote to the three-decade-long, billionaire-funded campaign to make us believe that this vital institution is destined to collapse. It isn't.From the Silent Generation to Baby Boomers, from Generation X to Millennials and Generation Z, we all have a stake in understanding the real story about Social.
Contents:
Acknowledgments; foreword; 1 the changing conversation; 2 social security works for all generations; 3 the precarious lives of today's old; 4 the coming retirement income crisis; 5 the debt owed to those who care; 6 the new gilded age; 7 expand social security for all generations; 8 paying the bill; 9 the billionaires' war against social security; 10 the conventional "wisdom" is just plain wrong; 11 there they go again; 12 passing social security forward; appendix a; appendix b; appendix c; appendix d; notes; index
Subjects:
Social security -- Government policy -- United States.
Social security -- United States -- Forecasting.
Social security -- United States.
Social security -- Government policy -- United States.
Social security -- United States -- Forecasting.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Insurance / Risk Assessment & Management.
Social security -- Government policy -- United States.
Social security -- United States -- Forecasting.
Social security -- United States.
Social security -- Government policy -- United States.
Social security -- United States -- Forecasting.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Insurance / Risk Assessment & Management.
ISBN:
9781620970478
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