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Social Insecurity: 401(k)s and the Retirement Crisis - Paperback - GOOD
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- ISBN
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- Book Title
- Social Insecurity : 401 (K) Sand the Retirement Crisis
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Publication Year
- 2015
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- Trade Paperback
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- English
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- Business & Economics, Political Science
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- Public Policy / Social Security, Public Policy / Economic Policy, Personal Finance / Retirement Planning, Personal Finance / General, Investments & Securities / General
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- Number of Pages
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How 401(k)s have gutted retirement security, from charging exorbitant hidden fees to failing to replace the income of traditional pensions Named one of PW 's Top 10 for Business & Economics A retirement crisis is looming. In 2008, as the 401(k) fallout rippled across the country, horrified holders watched 25 percent of their funds evaporate overnight. Average 401(k) balances for those approaching retirement are too small to generate more than $4,000 in annual retirement income, and experts predict that nearly half of middle-class workers will be poor or near poor in retirement. But long before the recession, signs were mounting that few people would ever be able to accumulate enough wealth on their own to ensure financial security later in life. This hasn't always been the case. Each generation of workers since the nineteenth century has had more retirement security than the previous generation. That is, until 1981, when shaky 401(k) plans began replacing traditional pensions. For the last thirty years, we've been advised that the best way to build one's nest egg is to heavily invest in 401(k)-type programs, even though such plans were originally designed to be a supplement to rather than the basis for retirement. This financial experiment, promoted by neoliberals and aggressively peddled by Wall Street, has now come full circle, with tens of millions of Americans discovering that they would have been better off under traditional pension plans long since replaced. As James W. Russell explains, this do-it-yourself retirement system--in which individuals with modest incomes are expected to invest large sums of capital in order to reap the same rewards as high-end money managers--isn't working. Social Insecurity tells the story of a massive and international retirement robbery--a substantial transfer of wealth from everyday workers to Wall Street financiers via tremendously costly hidden fees. Russell traces what amounts to a perfect swindle, from its ideological origins at Milton Friedman's infamous Chicago School to its implementation in Chile under Pinochet's dictatorship and its adoption in America through Reaganomics. Enraging yet hopeful, Russell offers concrete ideas on how individuals and society can arrest this downward spiral.
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Beacon Press
ISBN-10
0807014702
ISBN-13
9780807014707
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202705921
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Book Title
Social Insecurity : 401 (K) Sand the Retirement Crisis
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Public Policy / Social Security, Public Policy / Economic Policy, Personal Finance / Retirement Planning, Personal Finance / General, Investments & Securities / General
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Business & Economics, Political Science
Number of Pages
224 Pages
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Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
12.2 Oz
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Hd7105.45.U6r87 2015
Table of Content
PREFACE CHAPTER 1 Before the Swindle CHAPTER 2 A Fix for What Wasn't Broken CHAPTER 3 Army Tanks and Think Tanks CHAPTER 4 Targeting Social Security and Public Worker Pensions CHAPTER 5 How 401(k)s Are Supposed to Work and Why They Don't CHAPTER 6 A Model Unravels CHAPTER 7 Turmoil in the Land of Steady Habits CHAPTER 8 What We Can Do Acknowledgments Notes Index
Copyright Date
2015
Dewey Decimal
332.024/01450973
Dewey Edition
23
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