[PDF] Social Security In Americas Future eBook

Author : Max J. Skidmore
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780742562431

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Securing America's Future counters the attacks on Social Security, making clear that the system is not in crisis. The book calls for several changes, including Social Security's expansion, universal health care, and reforms that would enhance Social Security and make it even more beneficial for Americans.

Author : Nancy J. Altman
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 15,90 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1620976234

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Social Security expansion is back on the agenda, at a time when Americans need it more than ever—here’s what it should look like (and why it matters to everyday people all over the country) “Altman and Kingson cut through the fog of calculated confusion and outright lies about Social Security.”—David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author The COVID-19 crisis has pulled the curtain back on America’s looming retirement income crisis, a fraying of the national community, and ever-worsening income inequality. Never before have so many people’s livelihoods and futures been thrown into flux. Now more than ever, expanding Social Security is essential to addressing these challenges. Social Security Works for Everyone!, an evolution of the argument Nancy J. Altman and Eric R. Kingson made in their acclaimed first book, Social Security Works!, presents the case for expanding Social Security, explaining why monthly benefits need to be increased; why Americans need national paid family leave, sick leave, and long term care protections; and how we can pay for it all. Don’t believe the nearly four-decade, billionaire-funded campaign to convince us that the program is destined to collapse. It isn’t. At a time when growing numbers of Americans are seeing beyond the false choice between financial security for working people and financial security for the federal government, this book eloquently makes the case that universal programs that benefit all Americans (yes, even the rich) make our country stronger and our lives more secure. Social Security works because it embodies the best of American values—the ones that will allow Americans to obtain financial security and weather the next crisis.

Author : Nancy Altman
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 2015-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1620970473

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A growing chorus of prominent voices in Congress and elsewhere are calling for the expansion of our Social Security system—people 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 Security. Critical to addressing the looming retirement crisis that will affect two- thirds of today's workers, Social Security is a powerful program that can help stop the collapse of the middle class, lessen the pressure squeezing families from all directions, and help end the upward redistribution of wealth that has resulted in perilous levels of inequality. All Americans deserve to have dignified retirement years as well as an umbrella to protect them and their families in the event of disability or premature death. Sure to be a game-changer, Social Security Works! cogently presents the issues and sets forth both an agenda and a political strategy that will benefit us all. At stake are our values and the kind of country we want for ourselves and for those that follow.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Social Security
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 2000-07
Category : Retirement income
ISBN : 0788189921

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Witnesses: John Doble, Doble Research Associates, Inc.; Brian F. Keane, Economic Security 2000; Martha McSteen, National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare; Betty Knighton, National Issues Forums Institute; Dallas L. Salisbury, Employee Benefit Research Institute, & American Savings Education Council; & Erid Seidel, Tulsa, OK, & Walter Downes, Ionia, MI, U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce. Also includes submissions for the record: American Association of Retired Persons; Kevin Kearns, Council for Government Reform; & Wilfred Plomis, Wilmington, DE.

Author : Frederick R. Lynch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2011-06-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0520256530

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"Lynch provides a fresh and comprehensive look at the potential for politically mobilizing the large Boomer generation. He successfully mixes anecdotes, scholarship, and statistics to present an entertaining and informative analysis of a timely topic. Anyone desiring to effect change in public policy will welcome this book."—William H. Frey, The Brookings Institution “Fred Lynch has written a nuanced and marvelously comprehensive examination of the state of the Boomer Nation. This book offers an in-depth look at the economic challenges facing Boomers as well as a colorful account of how AARP has tried to rebrand itself to attract the generation that once celebrated the free spirit and hated the ‘establishment’.”—Neil Howe, co-author of The Graying of the Great Powers "A timely and important study of one of the most powerful lobbying groups in America as it redefines its mission and its message to confront the generational challenges of the twenty-first century." —Steve Gillon, author of Boomer Nation and Resident Historian of the History Channel "Fred Lynch's interpretation is an illuminating and much needed empirical corrective to the confusing and misleading cant that dominates so much of the debate. His scholarship deftly distinguishes between the organization's marketing to an aging society and the diverse realities of that population demographic." —Ted Marmor, author of Fads, Fallacies, and Foolishness in Medical Care Management and Policy and The Politics of Medicare