Social security works for everyone! : protecting and expanding the insurance Americans love and count on /

Social Security expansion is back on the political agenda, and it's never been more necessary "Social Security Works! puts expanding Social Security front and center on the national agenda, where it belongs. Everyone who has a stake in the debate should read this important book." ...

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Hlavní autoři: Altman, Nancy J., 1950- (Autor), Kingson, Eric R. (Autor)
Další autoři: Johnston, David Cay, 1948- (writer of foreword.)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New York, NY : The New Press, 2021.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.26193160
Popis
Shrnutí:Social Security expansion is back on the political agenda, and it's never been more necessary "Social Security Works! puts expanding Social Security front and center on the national agenda, where it belongs. Everyone who has a stake in the debate should read this important book." 'Senator Bernie Sanders on Nancy Altman and Eric Kingson's Social Security Works! Social Security works. Expanding it will make it work even better. The nation is facing a looming retirement income crisis, a hollowing out of the middle class, a fraying of the national community, and ever-worsening income inequality. Expanding Social Security is essential to addressing these challenges in the short and long term. Social Security Works for Everyone! presents the case for expanding Social Security'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 three-decade-long, billionaire-funded campaign to convince us that the program is destined to collapse. It isn't. When Social Security Works! was published in 2015, politicians and pundits from across the political spectrum were calling Social Security unsustainable. But a surge of political energy on the left has silenced these critics. Now, more Americans than ever see beyond the false choice between financial security for working people and financial security for the Federal Government. 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'ones we must reclaim if we are to heal from the perversion of those very values by the holder of the highest office in the land.
Popis jednotky:"Updated with a bold expansion plan"--Cover image
Previous edition published by The New Press in 2015 as Social security works! Why social security isn't going broke and how expanding it will help us all.
Fyzický popis:1 online resource (xvii, 315 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781620976234
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9781620976227