Social Security category: 3077 books
Eisenhower and Social Security
The Origins of the Disability Program
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2001
A clear and concise history of the Social Security disability program. This book chronicles how competing ideologies coalesced into the program we have today. Detailed is how the personalities of the leading politicians of the day, including FDR, Eisenhower, Paul Douglas and Walter George, influenced this landmark piece of legislation.
Falling Short
The Coming Retirement Crisis and What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
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...
Summary of Get What's Yours
by Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Philip Moeller | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Summary of Get What’s Yours by Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Philip Moeller | Includes Analysis Preview: Boston University economics professor, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, journalist specializing in retirement issues, Philip Moeller, and Yale international security professor and...
The Political Economy of Global Security
War, Future Crises and Changes in Global Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2007
What are the possibilities for and conditions of global security in the 21st century?
This book provides an innovative study of future wars, crises and transformations of the global political economy. It brings together economic theory, political economy, peace and conflict research, philosophy...
by Byron Goines
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Americans have made it perfectly clear they do not want Social Security, Medicare, and other entitlement programs touched by Congress. If you are concerned about Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Compensation, Food Stamps and other social programs this book is a must-read for you. Byron Goines...
The Predictable Surprise
The Unraveling of the U.S. Retirement System
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Social Security is in jeopardy, private pension systems have fallen apart, and workers are trying to save on their own for retirement with the stock market in the worst shape since the Great Depression. In The Predictable Surprise, Sylvester J. Schieber shows that forewarnings of the coming retirement...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
This ebook reproduction of the historic deficit commission report issued in December 2010 also contains the additional comments of members of the commission released in January 2011. Co-chaired by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the panel produced an important set of recommendations for reducing...
The Great Risk Shift
The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger. But the safety net that once protected us is fast unraveling. With retirement plans in growing jeopardy while health coverage erodes, more and more economic risk is shifting from government and business onto the fragile shoulders of...
by Arabinda Acharya
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
More than 11 years after the 9/11 attacks and 10 years after the October 2002 Bali bombings, the need for a comprehensive assessment of what the countries in Southeast Asia have achieved is overdue. We need to consider whether the strategies against both the domestic and transnational terrorist and...
From Bin Laden to Facebook
10 Days of Abduction, 10 Years of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Maria A Ressa has been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal (High-Profile Journalist Reshapes Her Role in Terrorism Fight) and Channel NewsAsia (Terrorism Goes Online)
The two most wanted terrorists in Southeast Asia — a Malaysian and a Singaporean — are on the run in the Philippines,...
by Arvindar Singh
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This volume contains an anthology of writings over the last about ten years of Arvindar Singh—a well known scribe in the journalistic circles of Uttarakhand and Delhi. The author has meticulously dealt with the topics he chose to work upon and produced writings which are of great stimulant value to...
by Anne L. Alstott
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Changes in longevity, marriage, and the workplace have undermined Social Security, making the experience of old age increasingly unequal. Anne Alstott’s pragmatic, progressive revision would permit all Americans to retire between 62 and 76 but would provide generous early retirement benefits for workers with low wages or physically demanding jobs.
Unretirement
How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
The budget battles of recent years have amplified the warnings of demographic doomsayers who predicted that a wave of baby boomers would bleed America dry, bankrupting Social Security and Medicare as they faded into an impoverished old age. On the contrary, argues award-winning journalist Chris Farrell,...
The Rape of the American Working Woman
How the Law and the Attitude Violate Your Paycheck
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Few people are aware of the injustices working women in the USA suffer due to antiquated laws and attitudes. They are often cheated in regard to Social Security benefits and get unfair treatment in divorce or child support actions because they work. Childcare subsidies have arbitrary cutoffs. Other issues...